(a.) Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth.
(a.) Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike, apprehension, etc.; -- said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story.
(a.) Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful.
(a.) Abounding in monsters.
(adv.) Exceedingly; very; very much.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: “Al-Jazeera as an editorial product and an employer is by no means above criticism, but that does not make the call for its closure any less monstrous.
(2) as though his head had been halved like an apple, then put together a fraction off center'" – but if they were monstrous they were also, necessarily, human.
(3) Some singers and writers are understood to write “in character” – Elvis Costello, for instance, or Randy Newman – because the characters they create are so obviously not themselves, and are either highly exaggerated or satirical creations or, in the case of Randy Newman, a monstrous opposite.
(4) Which is a monstrous statistic, especially when you start thinking about it as a statistic that measures not just literacy but also as a measure of imagination and empathy, because a book is a little empathy machine.
(5) Despite a cramping, high-concept production set in a psychiatric ward, Richardson gave us a Richard resembling a monstrous child whose ravening will had yet to be curbed by social custom.
(6) I have seen generations of children with their familiar, monstrous deformities .
(7) Ultrasonic treatment results in the appearance of monstrous embryos that die at the latest stages of their development.
(8) Jamie Vardy started to score the goals that his lightning speed of foot and monstrous effort promised he might.
(9) His monstrous wardrobe, his entourages of 300 or 400 ferried in four aeroplanes, his huge bedouin tent, complete with accompanying camel, pitched in public parks or in the grounds of five-star hotels – and his bodyguards of gun-toting young women, who, though by no means hiding their charms beneath demure Islamic veils, were all supposedly virgins, and sworn to give their lives for their leader.
(10) Prosecutors called Gibbs "monstrous" and "savage" and told the military jury he should never be released from prison.
(11) Both cell types fuse again to form the monstrous MGC (more than 1 mm in diameter) widely extended on the implant surface.
(12) The Celtics took a 2-1 series lead and made a monstrous statement against their younger opponents.
(13) Not only the monstrous anger of the guns nor the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle, but now an epic four-minute, eye-wateringly expensive commercial for a supermarket chain.
(14) Yet it is monstrously premature to think the threat has passed.
(15) As always, the solutions are out there to eliminate this monstrous pile of pointless and avoidable waste.
(16) So Standard Chartered is either guilty of monstrous deception or is virtually squeaky clean.
(17) With permissions already granted for many more towers, from the Scalpel to the Can of Ham and a monstrous “Gotham City” mega-block by Make, we can say goodbye to a skyline of individual spires, between which you might occasionally glimpse the sky.
(18) Concerned citizens must join together with the medical profession and leaders of the legal profession to halt this monstrous injustice.
(19) All three of these deaths were monstrous, but two were barely news: business as usual like many thousands of other violent crimes against women.
(20) Alexander Walker, film critic at the Evening Standard, damned the movie as "monstrously indecent", prompting Russell to attack him with a rolled-up copy of his own newspaper.
Orc
Definition:
(n.) The grampus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Genes play an important etiological role in ORC-related psychiatric side effects.
(2) Electron-microscopic studies of 2 of the Mabs in this class showed that they recognize antigens associated with the cell membrane and that the immunoreactive ORC axons are bundled together in fascicles in the antennal nerve.
(3) To investigate the etiological role of genetic factors in ORC-related symptoms, we studied questionnaire responses in 715 monozygotic and 416 dizygotic volunteer twin pairs concordant for ORC usage.
(4) A poll late last week, by CNN and ORC International , revealed that only 34% of Americans now support the war, one percentage point down on the previous all-time low.
(5) CNN, together with the market research company ORC, conducted a poll with a more robust methodology, although they only managed to speak to 537 registered voters in total (only 27% of whom identified as Republican).
(6) Stableflex (ORC) is a PMMA anterior chamber intraocular lens with closed and flexible loops permitting the philosophy of "one size fits all" in 90% of the eyes.
(7) Pyloric and cardiac glands were stained faintly with ox-orc but not with ox-HID or ox-AB.
(8) Multivariate genetic analysis indicated that both the genetic and the individual-specific environmental factors that influenced the liability to ORC-related depression and irritability were largely distinct from those that influence baseline levels of psychiatric symptoms.
(9) The protection in situ is similar to that generated by the origin recognition complex (ORC) protein.
(10) The authors report on their experience with UV-absorbent posterior chamber IOLs (ORC) implanted between April 1, 1984 and April 1, 1985 (n = 125).
(11) One group had the area of the aorta with the patch wrapped with oxidized regenerated cellulose (ORC); the other group served as a control.
(12) P. putida ORC, on the other hand, possesses individual hydroxylases for orcinol and resorcinol, which are specifically induced by growth on their respective substrates.
(13) In the control group, rabbits were fed commercial chow (ORC 4).
(14) Results demonstrate that ORC produced graded reduction in adhesion formation and significantly prevented adhesion reformation.
(15) In the investigation reported here, we examined the expression of the antigens during postembryonic development in order to correlate the presence of particular antigens with the status of differentiation of the ORCs or with their acquisition of particular functions.
(16) Immediately after this period of mitoses, the OSA immunoreactivity reappears exclusively in the ORCs, which begin to elaborate axons as an early event in their differentiation.
(17) In films featuring Dracula, Tony Montana, Orcs or even Achilles, the parameters are more clearly drawn.
(18) He’s been shot, stabbed, pulled apart by horses, chased off a cliff by cows, thrown off a giant satellite dish, blown up, beheaded and turned into a human pin-cushion by Orc arrows.
(19) Then everyone files out and goes into the next demo room – and you do this for the three days that the event runs, like being strapped to a conveyor belt of hype, until you don’t know where you are any more and all the games have merged into one narrative about a spec-ops warrior slaughtering orcs on Saturn.
(20) This antibody demonstrates that male-specific ORCs are molecularly distinct from other types of ORCs.