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Meanings of preposterous in English
Incongruous; inviting ridicule.
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Examples for "ridiculous"
Examples for "ridiculous"
1
No, not ridiculous; only a simple idea, and great in its simplicity.
2
The mountains are in labor, a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.
3
We eternally step from the sublime to the ridiculous; we want taste.
4
His idealism had made him ridiculous in the eyes of the townsfolk.
5
The scene was interrupted in an unexpected and ridiculous manner-thetelephone rang.
1
Looked at from our point of view the problems were quite absurd.
2
This approach and the list of functions was of course completely absurd.
3
The position of Germany, the euro zone's main lender, is increasingly absurd.
4
Of course Martin had been broken; it was absurd to think otherwise.
5
Perhaps the situation was just too absurd for him to take seriously.
1
MURRAY: The thought of that happening in my family was completely ludicrous.
2
Alas nowadays health and safety and ludicrous red tape has hampered stuntsters.
3
Some great saves, some ludicrous decisions coming off his line as well.
4
It might seem ludicrous but football is an impatient business these days.
5
The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself.
1
There's a great deal more of this idiotic list-making still to come.
2
There's a YouTube video already, of course, and the inevitable idiotic comments.
3
For example, check out this idiotic exchange on the blog The Intersection.
4
I lose it in the vulgarest way-andsay the most idiotic things.
5
I say idiotic because, already, science can replicate meat using plant-based proteins.
1
He finds laughable the idea that political freedom is a Western construct.
2
That is the laughable idea the Turnbull government would have you believe.
3
Claude seemed barely real to me: a paper clown, innocuous and laughable.
4
North Korea has dismissed the offer of multilateral security guarantees as laughable.
5
He could see nothing laughable about the desperate situation in the district.
1
A moment later, Sam heard Tricia's whispered voice, crooning sympathetic, nonsensical words.
2
They take place in a constant, denatured present and are often nonsensical.
3
The failings were unacceptable and the lack of testing nonsensical, she said.
4
Text from both the original and wannabe software often makes nonsensical leaps.
5
It was a nonsensical plan, like millions of others made that day.
1
Those bids were immediately rejected out of hand as derisory and insulting.
2
All they offered was a derisory non-naming rights option as an alternative.
3
That derisory fee doesn't cut any mustard with old Steve Coppell though.
4
He's taken the derisory offer in order to build up his work experience.
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The article says, for instance Sinn Fein might well receive a derisory vote.
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His ex-wife espoused a cockeyed fiscal philosophy that made very expensive sense.
2
His cockeyed version of the Story of our Country for one thing.
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In the end he left the post standing cockeyed in the stream.
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We'll put it this way, to start: Something cockeyed is going on.
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Graphic: China's GDP: slower and more slippery Real growth rates are similarly cockeyed.
Usage of preposterous in English
1
Simply, as she thought that preposterous idea, it began to take shape.
2
Or perhaps I never really believed that the preposterous toy would work.
3
But, in recent years, the documentary competition has been almost as preposterous.
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To a gringo such a thing sounds preposterous, impossible, am I right?
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No idea was too preposterous; and not one of them bore fruit.
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The idea of having the rough Ranger for a rival is preposterous.
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I laughed; for the very notion of writing a book seemed preposterous.
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Viewed in the light of sober reason, the whole thing was preposterous.
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Things are simply too weird to hold any theory out as preposterous.
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In the end, your version of what happened that day is preposterous.
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The idea of a woman refusing him anything seemed to him preposterous.
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The preposterous is sometimes true; could it be true in this case?
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I know what I'm doing seems preposterous in light of the risks.
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Trigo put in his oar and uttered a number of preposterous statements.
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He would laugh at this preposterous story; of that she was sure.
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His struggles were preposterous; his lively sense of ridicule speedily stopped them.
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