Monstrously Definition & Meaning

monstrously
adverb
  1. in a hideous manner; "her face was hideously disfigured after the accident"
  2. in a terribly evil manner; "the child was heinously murdered"
  3. in a grotesque manner; "behind the house lay two nude figures grotesquely bald, with deliberate knife-slashes marking their bodies"

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