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outrageousness

/out-rey-juhs/US // aʊtˈreɪ dʒəs //UK // (aʊtˈreɪdʒəs) //

无耻之徒,愤慨,无耻之极,无耻

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of the nature of or involving gross injury or wrong: an outrageous slander.
    • : grossly offensive to the sense of right or decency: outrageous behavior; an outrageous remark.
    • : passing reasonable bounds; intolerable or shocking: an outrageous price.
    • : violent in action or temper.
    • : highly unusual or unconventional; extravagant; remarkable: a child of the most outrageous precocity; a fancy dive performed with outrageous ease.

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Examples

  • Takano used the terms “shockingly tone-deaf” and “outrageous” and accused Wilkie of tolerating a “hostile culture at VA” for female veterans.

  • The image has deeply angered Australia, with prime minister Scott Morrison calling Zhao’s tweet “truly repugnant, deeply offensive, utterly outrageous” and calling on Beijing to formally apologize.

  • He calls the president’s efforts to overturn the election “outrageous.”

  • “It’s completely outrageous,” says Hye Jung Han, a children’s rights advocate at Human Rights Watch, who led the research.

  • He enthusiastically attacks anyone if he thinks it gets him a headline and will retweet any outrageous attack or conspiracy theory claiming later it wasn’t him who said it first.

  • Outrageousness hums around these women, and an earthiness too: all have survived—and sometimes thrived from—their drama.

  • Second, he should use the State of the Union to drive home the absurdity of the situation, and the outrageousness of it.

  • Akin's view may be outrageous, but its outrageousness is not one man's mental spasm.

  • She's the most outrageous thing out there at a time when we need outrageousness more than ever.

  • I see well ye have great will to be slain as your father was, through outrageousness.

  • This outrageousness shows only what manner of spirit they are of, and how much their sordid views exceed their parental love.

  • There comes a moment when the very outrageousness of what you are doing makes you redouble your blows.

  • The very outrageousness of the thing was its best passport to success.

  • Notwithstanding Mrs. M.'s outrageousness she is the person I trouble my head the least about.