monstrously

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In the modern game, which has become overrun by monstrously tall super-athletes who can swish 3-pointers as easily as they throw down dunks, every franchise is searching far and wide for the next big thing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 16, 2025

Formerly, if one behaved monstrously, one was judged accordingly.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2025

“The sentence is monstrously harsh,” the doctor’s lawyer, Oskar Cherdzhiyev, told me.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2024

As I was writing about my mother, who is charismatic and funny but monstrously destructive, I would have to get up and hyperventilate and bit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2024

The wind that lifted spray off the white-capped waves was monstrously cold, and searched out every gap in Lyra’s wolfskin, and her hands were soon aching and her face numb.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman