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monstrosity
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  • Afire with the showman's passion and at the same time a good deal disconcerted by the failure of his first effort, father now took the bottles containing the poultry monstrosities down from their place on the shelf and began to show them to his visitor.  (source)
    monstrosities = ugly or terrible things
  • Behold the fire-breathing monstrosity!†  (source)
    monstrosity = something that is big and terrible
  • Despite my father's reassurance, there existed no bag in our house big enough to hold this monstrosity.†  (source)
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  • She pointed to the cellophaned monstrosity on the counter.†  (source)
    monstrosity = something that is big and terrible
  • I'd been a good sport throughout, as had she, powering through from open house to open house of gloomy pre-wars haunted by the ghosts of lonely old Jewish ladies, and icy glass monstrosities I knew I could never live in without feeling I had sniper rifles trained on me from across the street.†  (source)
    monstrosities = things that are ugly or terrible -- typically large
  • That monstrosity over there, for instance, was one of our biggest losses.†  (source)
    monstrosity = something that is big and terrible
  • My mind wanders to the wolflike creatures in the first arena, the monkeys in the Quarter Quell, the monstrosities I've witnessed on television over the years, and I wonder what form these mutts will take.†  (source)
    monstrosities = things that are ugly or terrible -- typically large
  • Bella felt great sympathy for the sewing machine operator who'd had to concoct that monstrosity.†  (source)
    monstrosity = something that is big and terrible
  • Think about it, she'll get dolled up in one of those satin monstrosities no rational girl would ever wear, and they'll take one of those awful pictures—†  (source)
    monstrosities = things that are ugly or terrible -- typically large
  • She had brought this monstrosity back to life.†  (source)
    monstrosity = something that is big and terrible
  • It held even though the piano players went to music school and actually learned to read notes, even though new churches became glass and steel monstrosities that looked like they had just touched down from Venus.†  (source)
    monstrosities = things that are ugly or terrible -- typically large
  • He sat high upon the immense ancient seat of Aegon the Conqueror, an ironwork monstrosity of spikes and jagged edges and grotesquely twisted metal.†  (source)
    monstrosity = something that is big and terrible
  • When I have healed these fractures and comprehended these monstrosities so that they need neither excuse nor apology, which both waste our strength, I shall give back to the street and the eating-shop what they lost when they fell on these hard times and broke on these stony beaches.†  (source)
    monstrosities = things that are ugly or terrible -- typically large
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