Sentence examples for enormity is from inspiring English sources

Loosey-goosey defenders can insist "it's not a mistake" to use enormity as a synonym for "huge," or even the childlike "humongous," but those who care for clarity in communication to the widest audience will respect the distinction: enormousness is always "bigness"; enormity is often associated with "badness".

Their enormity is impressive, but it is their many details that are most captivating.

When structural change happens, the enormity is often beyond the scope of the protagonists as the consequences are unthinkable.

I was well into my second decade of journalism before I found out that "enormity" is a synonym for monstrosity or wickedness – not hugeness.

And the few who make the effort to get into Britain's wild rafters share the biggest secret of all: up above the millions in this crowded … this apparently suffocatingly crowded nation, the spaciousness and enormity is breathtaking.

The judge told them, as he sent them away for 30 years, that it was "a crime which in its impudence and enormity is the first of its kind in this country.

But since Mr Reeve's crime involved child pornography, and his job was teaching physical education in a school, the level of panic and the potential fallout is almost without limit.Memories of an earlier enormity are one reason for the hysteria.

And this enormity was inclusive.

The great big problems that should be so easy to grasp due to their enormity are often impossible to nail down due to hidden complexities.

In 1796, in his enduringly eloquent Farewell Address (written by Madison and Hamilton), he cautioned the American people about party rancor: "The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism".

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.