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Monster

noun

An imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts.

Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful. Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, goliath.

A person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed. Synonyms: freak, lusus naturae, monstrosity.

A cruel wicked and inhuman person. Synonyms: demon, devil, fiend, ogre.

(medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus. Synonym: teras.

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"Monster" Quotes from Famous Books

... characters history has most venomously lied about. Mr. Wiegand has shown some part of the truth about her in his biography; but I do not think he has solved the whole problem; for he takes the easy road of making Octavian a monster. Now Augustus, beyond any question, was one of the most beneficent forces that ever appeared in history; and no monster can be turned, by the mere circumstance of success achieved, into that. Cleopatra had made a bid to solve the world-problem on an Egyptian basis: first ...

— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris

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— The Secrets Of The Great City • Edward Winslow Martin

... Peter, the loved and loving John, and their true-hearted brethren, and with them the vast host of martyrs; while outside the walls, with every vile and abominable thing, are those by whom they were persecuted, imprisoned, and slain. There is Nero, that monster of cruelty and vice, beholding the joy and exaltation of those whom he once tortured, and in whose extremest anguish he found satanic delight. His mother is there to witness the result of her own work; to see how the evil stamp of character transmitted to her ...

— The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan • Ellen G. White

... Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature, except that he took rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban, for he owed him a grudge because he was the son of his old enemy Sycorax. This Caliban, Prospero found in the woods, a strange misshapen thing, far less human in form than an ape: he took him home to his cell, and taught ...

— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb

... "The rude monster!" cried Christina, starting up as if tired of the conversation. "I have no wish to know him. They say he ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. • Various

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