Adjective : a preposterous tale. From Dictionary.com.
Tuition fees 'preposterously' low, says chancellor of Oxford university education is to remain world class. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Financial News] Reference
And beauty moved that absurd creature preposterously. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
And those things do best please me That befall preposterously. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
JT: Animation gives new meaning to "Big" It's preposterously huge!. From Wordnik.com. [COMIC-CON 2010: 'iCarly's' JERRY TRAINOR goes 'b-i-g' to voice the new cartoon 'T.U.F.F. Puppy'] Reference
Such preposterously low seed money targets little kids with big ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Y Combinator’s Snipd Launches To The Public] Reference
In filling up some of the gaps he might have been preposterously wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
One describing his landing vpon a strange coast, sayd thus preposterously. From Wordnik.com. [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference
But, for one thing, a lot of officers in this war were preposterously young. From Wordnik.com. [Advance and Retreat]
LEVS: Factcheck. org says this is a false and preposterously inflated figure. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2008] Reference
The literary Bond is low-tech; the movie Bond is preposterously accessorized. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with the Golden Pen] Reference
My reflections preposterously failed to rest upon the obvious clue, the mysterious. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
LEVS: FactCheck. org is calling this "a false and preposterously inflated figure.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2008] Reference
"You exaggerate preposterously!" cried Valeria, half annoyed, although she laughed. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
He was governed by a preposterously exacting temperament, and he wore his nerves outside. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
Or was planned all along as a deranged Miliband is now preposterously attempting to assert. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Then I observed that myself had preposterously deceived me, that it wasn't like that at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
Unlike us, their bodies assume adult form and bulk preposterously in advance of their minds. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
The ribbonfish brought its preposterously flat head down as the bulrush craft sputtered close. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
But that further confession will be forthcoming is now wildly and preposterously problematical. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20] Reference
Perhaps because in some ways it did resemble his own, that face was more preposterously nonhuman. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Traders] Reference
He didn't care that everyone was so preposterously far away that he would never meet them in person. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Joe is a preposterously gallant Old World charmer, who outrages her family by asking her out on a date. From Wordnik.com. [An Amorous Knight In Queens] Reference
The new king in motley arose; heedless, devil-may-care, very erect in his preposterously pointed shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
We demanded that work be interesting in itself and, even more preposterously, that it should have meaning. From Wordnik.com. [The Recession Hits Home] Reference
At first read, Crosby's approach seems preposterously simplistic, to reduce the whole of history to an arms race. From Wordnik.com. [Hurling Through History] Reference
It only appears low by contrast with a revenue swollen by preposterously heavy rates and protected by a monopoly. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
This would be untrue to nature, false to art, preposterously absurd, and I pronounce it to be altogether erroneous. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
Is he going to go after the oligarchs who have amassed huge, and in many cases preposterously illegal economic power. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Russians Go to Polls to Vote for New President; Pope Departs Holy Land, Message of Peace and Reconciliation Remains - March 26, 2000] Reference
The Godfather of Tennis Neon, of course, is Rafael Nadal, the lustrous, preposterously talented world No. 1 from Spain. From Wordnik.com. [Somebody Save Us From All the Neon] Reference
"I wonder if people ever grow up at all here," Constantia said, smiling, "you are all so preposterously young, you know.". From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
He selected her dress, fastened it, scolded her for putting her hat on crooked, and laced up her preposterously high boots. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
Yet even the Puritans came to battle in attire which would have seemed preposterously gaudy to the plain men of our own Revolution. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859] Reference
A servant at the White House testifies that he was approached by emissaries who offered him a sum almost preposterously large to put. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
Again, what king was ever so preposterously impudent as to have all the profits, and kindnesses, and privileges of his kingdom on sale?. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
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