Definition of Frankenstein monster
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- a Frankenstein monster that would stand before a typecase and pluck out letters and click them into a composing stick
- —T. W. Duncan
- bureaucracy … become a Frankenstein monster, a law unto itself, interested largely in its own perpetuation and expansion
- —E. S. Griffith
- French fears that a rearmed Germany might prove to be a Frankenstein's monster which would turn on its creators
- —O. N. Bradley
