Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inverted order or position; with the hind part foremost; with the bottom upward.
- Irrationally; absurdly; stupidly.
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- adverb In a
preposterous manner.
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- adverb so as to arouse or deserve laughter
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Examples
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The punks, in preposterously clownish make-up, respond with sarcasm, socio-political rhetoric, and snot-nosed apathy.
Boing Boing 2008
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Mr. Gottfried, decked out in preposterously ill-fitting formal wear, has a manic voice so shrill he makes Jerry Lewis sound like Morgan Freeman.
March 2005 2005
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Tuition fees 'preposterously' low, says chancellor of Oxford university education is to remain world class ...
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Thereafter, Mrs. Morgan rode the roan alternate quarters of miles, and between times walked — if walk may describe her stumbling progress on two preposterously tiny feet with a man supporting her on either side.
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Too easy, it turned out…David Dimbleby Tonight we're in… long heartbroken sigh, interspersed with preposterously ill-concealed shudders Glasgow.
I'm sorry. Do speak up. I didn't quite catch that | Euan Ferguson 2011
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Watch the on-board videos on a big screen and you start to understand how preposterously high the speeds are.
'The Help': '60s Racism in Black and White Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Insulating primary care providers from indirect commercial influence seems preposterously difficult in a world in which pharmaceutical manufacturers market directly to patients, and ply doctors with literally cartloads of free samples, swag, and probably anything else they can foist on them.
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Mr. Jackson, for instance, plays Giles as a tragic Elmer Fudd, a preposterously oblivious figure of fun who stops being funny when he finally figures out that he's been betrayed.
Ayckbourn, Indoors and Out Terry Teachout 2011
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An ex-cop investigator, Peter tags along with Megan as she butts in repeatedly, and preposterously, during confrontational interrogations.
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Mars and his production team, the preposterously named Smeezingtons, have had a hand in all of those songs.
Album review: Bruno Mars, "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" The Reliable Source 2010
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