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Significados de preposterous em inglês

Incongruous; inviting ridicule.

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Uso de preposterous em inglês
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Simply, as she thought that preposterous idea, it began to take shape.
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Or perhaps I never really believed that the preposterous toy would work.
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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.
Amagansett
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The idea of having the rough Ranger for a rival is preposterous.
The Lone Ranche
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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.
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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.
The Scarlet Gospels
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The idea of a woman refusing him anything seemed to him preposterous.
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2
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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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