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monstrosity

[mon-stros-i-tee] / mɒnˈstrɒs ɪ ti /


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She added: "I for one would not want to come on holiday to a little Scottish village and have to go past the monstrosity that is being built."

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

He’s just some mud-brown monstrosity roaming the Vale of Arryn and treating livestock like campfire marshmallows.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

Wilmot Fraser, the sole Black member of the city history commission, called the monument a monstrosity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Petro earlier called the threat of a 100 percent tariff "a monstrosity" and threatened to withdraw Colombia from the Andean Community of Nations, a trade bloc which also includes Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

I shouted in a desperate attempt to distance myself from Katz’s monstrosity.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

"Look around you at these monstrosities of insanity, insolence, incompetence and degeneration," he declared in his opening address.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2025

Obtaining an ugly sweater used to mean digging around in thrift stores or the backs of closets to find sometimes handmade monstrosities embellished with all sorts of corny Christmas creatures.

From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024

These monstrosities will smother beaches and erase views of the sea, but they are not high enough to block another 2011-sized wave.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

In the case of Mr. Jon, the inseam of these monstrosities would be so substantial that they barely qualified as shorts to the rational observer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

Up above, clouds will billow out of nowhere into dark monstrosities, pregnant with malevolent intent, and a clear blue sky is like a magnifying glass for a punishing sun.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman


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