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• Yet, though the piece is preposterous hokum, the show is put across with enormous zest.2007 September 14, Michael Billington, “Bad Girls, the musical”, in The Guardian. From the entry put across
• Everywhere images of women with preposterous lips, blackened eyes and pushed up breasts.1999, Phoebe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory and Aesthetics, volumes 11-12, page 78. From the entry bimbofication
• Some people believe with great fervor preposterous things that just happen to coincide with their self-interest.Coleman v. Commissioner, 791 F.2d 68, 69 (7th Cir. 1986). From the entry tax protester
• What did you pay?" "Ten thousand francs apiece." "But, Irma, that's preposterous!1942, Upton Sinclair, Dragon's Teeth. From the entry for the love of Mike
• "Don't tell me that you have had one of these preposterous telegrams for oxygen?" I exhibited it.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry cross-grained
• “This is preposterous!” said the King, fustered.2013, Jerri Kay Lincoln, Dancing with Unicorns: A Unicorn Wisdom Book, page 107. From the entry fustered
• For Iranian-speaking scribes, alloglottography would be rather preposterous.2006, Seth L. Sanders, Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures, page 40. From the entry alloglottography
• It was, as Carrados explained, entirely his own preposterous fault.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry insecure
• It was their preposterous claim that I should read their hare-brained literature which caused me to display some little heat."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Professor Challenger Goes Forth to Battle”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no.…. From the entry hare-brained
• Some wore preposterous hats, millinered by the sun itself.1921, Rex Beach, “The Chronicle of a Chromatic Bear Hunt”, in Oh, Shoot! Confessions of an Agitated Sportsman, New York, N.Y.; London…. From the entry milliner
• He was perched up top attending to the roof lantern when he was stuck down (literally) by a storm of "preposterous fury" (Bizarre Berkshire, D.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56. From the entry strike down
• This was surely, he was now concluding, the most preposterous of preposterosities, that a fish could travel, that a fish could go on the road.2005, Murray Pomerance, Savage Time, [Ottawa, Ont.]: Oberon Press, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry preposterosity
• Pursuing its preposterous, overplotted premise, Time merrily confuses myth with fact--Romeo and Juliet and Arthur never lived, or they did so under other names.1988 July 1, Lawrence Bommer, “Channel This, or Die, Yuppie Scum!; Time in a Battle”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry overplotted
• In my over-wrought state of the night before, it had seemed reasonable enough; but here, in the cold light of day, it seemed preposterous.1912 March, Burton E[gbert] Stevenson, “Preparations”, in The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead…. From the entry in the cold light of day
• They seize the new principle that has just been discovered, and carry it to a preposterous extreme, betrashing the phrases of scientists and thinkers.1901, Herbert Newton Casson, The crime of credulity. From the entry betrash
• When Herman Melvilled visited , he was fascinated yet repulsed by the 'contagion' of American Christian millenarianism – 'this preposterous Jewmania', he called it, 'half-melancholy, half-farcical'.2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 406. From the entry millenarianism
• Even a man of Stanford's preposterous bluster would struggle to explain how enabling tax dodging has anything to do with giving a toss about other people.2009 February 21, Marina Hyde, “Thanks for the philanthropy, billionaires. Now pay your tax”, in The Guardian, archived from the original…. From the entry philanthropy
• Also screening during this first festival week is Andrea Arnold’s “Red Road,” a well-acted slice of British miserablism about a woman out for revenge by any preposterous means necessary.2007 March 21, Manohla Dargis, “Those New Directors Keep on Emerging...”, in New York Times. From the entry miserablism
• The number isn't a toedance, the entire project is preposterous, and then, having shown us how delicately she can work, she proceeds to tap on the toes.1997, More Opening Nights on Broadway. From the entry toedance
• Are we to be crucified just to save the faces of our leaders or to bolster up the preposterous that India can be a single nation?1933, Choudhary Rahmat Ali et al., Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?. From the entry to death
• Though it was preposterous to suppose these carrion-gorged predators would molest us, my guards doubled their sentries; those who slept did so in their corslets, with curtelaxes in their hands.1983, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVIII, in The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun; 4), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 232. From the entry curtle-axe

Meaning of preposterous

1. adjective Absurd, or contrary to common sense.

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How do you use preposterous in a sentence?

Preposterous is used as an adjective. For example: “The preposterous altruism too!”

What is a short sentence with preposterous?

“The preposterous altruism too!”

What does preposterous mean?

Preposterous means absurd, or contrary to common sense.