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preposterousness

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

荒谬的事情,荒诞不经,荒唐,荒谬

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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

  • DeRosa also said she believed that the idea that she would lead an investigation into workplace culture was preposterous.

  • It’s heard in the preposterous arguments against vaccinating children and Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection.

  • Stone’s film is finally sunk by its preposterous visuals, which are legitimately hilarious.

  • In all those years focusing on survival, the cynical voices were given a preposterous amount of room to criticize.

  • At the airport, it felt preposterous to obey the social-distancing signs throughout the terminal, only to be squashed like standing sardines once we all got on the plane.

  • Some cough up preposterous jury awards, while others lay bare the egregious failures of the criminal justice system.

  • I am genuinely curious if any of the preposterous ramifications of what he is saying even occur to Kennedy.

  • I found the whole idea so preposterous I even Tweeted about it.

  • By 1994, the league slugging percentage was a preposterous .424, the highest since 1930.

  • “Trying to patch the current system is preposterous and destined for failure,” said Dr. Damania.

  • But he made it most emphatically clear that the thing Alessandro had asked was not only out of the question, but preposterous.

  • And I, for one, absolutely decline to believe in this preposterous story of his about a bull-dog.

  • He knew his world too well to make preposterous mental demands upon it.

  • For this was the preposterous nature of the imposition, and she claimed to have given birth to no less than eighteen of them.

  • Her hope had been to escape loneliness, but with this preposterous secret, she was lonelier than she had ever been before.