All 3 Uses
monstrosity
in
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
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- Mom opens the kitchen window to tell him to get that monstrosity away from her house before she calls a local Christian terrorist group, but Ellerby only smiles and says, "Hi, Mrs. Moby," and drops dramatically to his hands and knees to crawl safely to the kitchen door.†
Chpt 3 *monstrosity = something that is big and terrible
- Instead, Mark logged fifty more hours watching the Trinity Network, then took his complaint to the administration—with a petition signed by twenty-five or thirty of his faithful followers—requesting not only that Ellerby be banned from representing the school in his loathsome powder blue monstrosity, but that it also be outlawed in the student parking lotnow and forever more, world without end, amen.†
Chpt 3
- Ellerby pulled slowly onto the street, passing within three feet of Mr. Byrnes's dark blue monstrosity.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(monstrosity) something that is ugly or terrible -- typically large
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)