monstrously

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Etymology[edit]

monstrous +‎ -ly

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monstrously (comparative more monstrously, superlative most monstrously)

  1. In a monstrous manner.
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
      She went about the house in a state of real terror, and yet lied monstrously and wilfully, and invented many of the alarms she spread, and made many of the sounds we heard.

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