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What does monstrous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Hideous or frightful.
  2. Enormously large.
  3. Freakish or grotesque.
  4. Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
  5. (obsolete) Marvellous; strange.
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His head was displayed on a pike near Westminster Hall, the scene of either his greatest triumph or his most monstrous regicidal crime.
Mai put the candle down on the desk, setting monstrous shadows to jittering on the walls and ceiling as she turned back to me.
Having befriended the monstrous Lelio, she agrees to rescue him from the marital clutches of a middle-aged countess by wooing the lady herself.
That is, part of what's monstrous about monsters is somehow this very agglutination of significance, these uncontrolled outgrowths of meaning.
The dome is not the only monstrous carbuncle currently swallowing obscene amounts of public money.
The surreal, anarchic and monstrous extremes of yesterday are not so sensational anymore.

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