Monstrous – Adjective

Definition – very wrong or unfair

Source –http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monstrous

Found in – ” The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

Passage – ” She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her”

Ms. Mallard was so happy that she will now live for herself for the upcoming years that she didn’t even question  if the joy she was feeling was something wrong because she really was supposed to be sad that her husband passed away.

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