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• n  a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
• n  something hideous or frightful
  they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity

• The monstrosity's favorite nest is a testicle.
• We only notice it when an earth-shattering monstrosity like the stimulus bill comes gallumphing down the track, but there is no such thing as elegant legislation.
• Sam Pollit is an exhausting monstrosity of a husband and father, not always cruel, but always self-regarding "Sam the Bold" is his name for himselfand self-deluding.

• freak
• monster
• lusus naturae

News & Articles

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• Mega-driveway proposal flusters Pitkin County commissioners
  Monstrosity. Abomination. P-I-G. Those were just a few of the words used at a Wednesday meeting of the Pitkin County commissioners to describe a massive driveway proposed to access a 62-acre residential property off Woody Creek Road.
  June 13, 2013 - The Aspen Times

Quotes

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• Mr Blackwell in Reuters
  In one skinny-mini monstrosity after another, pouty 'Posh' can really wreck-em,Blackwell said in his annual list of fashion fiascos among music, movie and television stars.
• Don Newcombe in SI.com
  That's terrible, isn't it? I know the hitters are foaming at the mouth,Newcombe said, his voice rising. "It's a monstrosity, that's not a baseball thing. It was a monstrosity then. We knew that."