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preposterously

/pri-pos-ter-uhs, -truhs/US // prɪˈpɒs tər əs, -trəs //UK // (prɪˈpɒstərəs) //

荒谬地,荒谬的,荒唐地,荒唐的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : completely contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; utterly foolish; absurd; senseless: a preposterous tale.

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Examples

  • Now in the NFC, Brady has added a preposterous 14th title game appearance to his résumé.

  • The idea of TV advertising has long been considered preposterous for B2B marketing.

  • Does this mean that we've preposterously ceded the ability to shape our perceptions to small groups of crazy people?

  • But that, however preposterously, is their perception and reputation.

  • Austen was a mathematician of social interaction, and her novels are impossibly, preposterously good.

  • Acceptance rates at top schools have fallen to preposterously low levels.

  • The cardboard is preposterously thick—thicker than the wedding invitation of a Saudi sheik.

  • The head itself was preposterously small and was supported on an equally preposterous, thick, short neck.

  • This resolution was made in deference to the opinion of others, and to the public feeling, which was so preposterously excited.

  • Wetherbee stared into the shaven, haunted face thus preposterously thrust at him across the years.

  • But it was a preposterously difficult task to get across an undercut to where he could grasp a stunted tree.

  • Strangely, her glances seemed to have become preposterously mixed.