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Significados de preposterous en inglés

Incongruous; inviting ridicule.

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      No, not ridiculous; only a simple idea, and great in its simplicity.
      Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing
      2
      The mountains are in labor, a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.
      The Works of Horace
      3
      We eternally step from the sublime to the ridiculous; we want taste.
      The Pilgrims of the Rhine
      4
      His idealism had made him ridiculous in the eyes of the townsfolk.
      Elder Conklin and Other Stories
      5
      The scene was interrupted in an unexpected and ridiculous manner-thetelephone rang.
      Treasure and Trouble Therewith: A Tale of California
      1
      Looked at from our point of view the problems were quite absurd.
      The End of Man?
      2
      This approach and the list of functions was of course completely absurd.
      The Guardian
      3
      The position of Germany, the euro zone's main lender, is increasingly absurd.
      Reuters
      4
      Of course Martin had been broken; it was absurd to think otherwise.
      Deep black
      5
      Perhaps the situation was just too absurd for him to take seriously.
      A Winter Haunting
      1
      MURRAY: The thought of that happening in my family was completely ludicrous.
      Ebony
      2
      Alas nowadays health and safety and ludicrous red tape has hampered stuntsters.
      The Guardian
      3
      Some great saves, some ludicrous decisions coming off his line as well.
      The Guardian
      4
      It might seem ludicrous but football is an impatient business these days.
      The Irish Times
      5
      The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself.
      The Celebrity, Volume 01
      1
      There's a great deal more of this idiotic list-making still to come.
      The Irish Times
      2
      There's a YouTube video already, of course, and the inevitable idiotic comments.
      NY Magazine
      3
      For example, check out this idiotic exchange on the blog The Intersection.
      Wired
      4
      I lose it in the vulgarest way-andsay the most idiotic things.
      Delia Blanchflower
      5
      I say idiotic because, already, science can replicate meat using plant-based proteins.
      The Irish Times
      1
      He finds laughable the idea that political freedom is a Western construct.
      Reuters
      2
      That is the laughable idea the Turnbull government would have you believe.
      The Guardian
      3
      Claude seemed barely real to me: a paper clown, innocuous and laughable.
      The Girls
      4
      North Korea has dismissed the offer of multilateral security guarantees as laughable.
      The Irish Times
      5
      He could see nothing laughable about the desperate situation in the district.
      Seven Icelandic Short Stories
      1
      A moment later, Sam heard Tricia's whispered voice, crooning sympathetic, nonsensical words.
      Love- from his point of view!
      2
      They take place in a constant, denatured present and are often nonsensical.
      The Guardian
      3
      The failings were unacceptable and the lack of testing nonsensical, she said.
      The Guardian
      4
      Text from both the original and wannabe software often makes nonsensical leaps.
      Wired
      5
      It was a nonsensical plan, like millions of others made that day.
      Let's take the long way home: a memoir of friendship
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      Those bids were immediately rejected out of hand as derisory and insulting.
      The Guardian
      2
      All they offered was a derisory non-naming rights option as an alternative.
      News.com.au
      3
      That derisory fee doesn't cut any mustard with old Steve Coppell though.
      The Guardian
      4
      He's taken the derisory offer in order to build up his work experience.
      The South African
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      The article says, for instance Sinn Fein might well receive a derisory vote.
      The Irish Times
      1
      His ex-wife espoused a cockeyed fiscal philosophy that made very expensive sense.
      Getting in: a novel
      2
      His cockeyed version of the Story of our Country for one thing.
      Further adventures
      3
      In the end he left the post standing cockeyed in the stream.
      The story of edgar sawtelle
      4
      We'll put it this way, to start: Something cockeyed is going on.
      Highways in Hiding
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      Graphic: China's GDP: slower and more slippery Real growth rates are similarly cockeyed.
      Reuters
      Uso de preposterous en inglés
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      Simply, as she thought that preposterous idea, it began to take shape.
      Complete Books of Blood
      2
      Or perhaps I never really believed that the preposterous toy would work.
      Axiomatic
      3
      But, in recent years, the documentary competition has been almost as preposterous.
      The Irish Times
      4
      To a gringo such a thing sounds preposterous, impossible, am I right?
      The bourne objective
      5
      No idea was too preposterous; and not one of them bore fruit.
      Amagansett
      6
      The idea of having the rough Ranger for a rival is preposterous.
      The Lone Ranche
      7
      I laughed; for the very notion of writing a book seemed preposterous.
      The Vicar's Daughter
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      Viewed in the light of sober reason, the whole thing was preposterous.
      Revolution, and Other Essays
      9
      Things are simply too weird to hold any theory out as preposterous.
      Reuters
      10
      In the end, your version of what happened that day is preposterous.
      The Scarlet Gospels
      11
      The idea of a woman refusing him anything seemed to him preposterous.
      Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2
      12
      The preposterous is sometimes true; could it be true in this case?
      Initials Only
      13
      I know what I'm doing seems preposterous in light of the risks.
      Saving max
      14
      Trigo put in his oar and uttered a number of preposterous statements.
      Youth and Egolatry
      15
      He would laugh at this preposterous story; of that she was sure.
      Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
      16
      His struggles were preposterous; his lively sense of ridicule speedily stopped them.
      Vittoria — Volume 6
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