| ADJ | preposterous | more preposterous | most preposterous |
| SYNO | absurd | cockeyed | derisory | ... |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
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Usage Examples English
- Tomas decides to report everything to higher authorities, even though Noli discourages him. His report is dismissed by his immediate superior, who pronounced it as "preposterous".
- The "Los Angeles Times" thought the story was even more "preposterous" than "Bolero" but felt it was a better movie due to its dancing, attractive women and music, calling the film "a sensory experience".
- "Publishers Weekly" received "Scream of Eagles" negatively, writing, "this is a preposterous story, with little historical accuracy or value, featuring a shallow caricature of a western hero".
- The Futurists amused themselves and outraged the public by inventing preposterous new dishes, most of which were shocking due to their unusual combinations and exotic ingredients.
- It uses iconography, situations and dialogue from films. Some of the show's humour is derived from the deliberate adaptation of these films to everyday settings, leading to preposterous results.
- The French historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet in "Assassins of Memory" considered such allegations to be preposterous.
- Investigations found the claims to be as preposterous.
- Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman called it "Mostly preposterous, and it has no dramatic center, but the racing scenes hold you in their death-trip grip" and gave it a grade C+.
- He appears in the first episode of the 2001 miniseries "The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells", rejecting a story from Wells for being too long and too preposterous.
- The plot, he said, was preposterous enough, the girls exotic enough and the villains superbly Satanic.
- Gogeumsochong (kor: 고금소총) is a collection of preposterous tales, consisting of eleven different anthologies collected from the period of early to late Joseon.
- This led to the pseudoscience investigation group the Australian Skeptics awarding him Bent Spoon award for "the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle".
- Siodmak called it "a preposterous film... the story was absurd (who can sympathise with a main character who doesn't believe steam will ever supplant the sailing ship?)".
- Blah Fest: This involves participants coming up with preposterous explanations for the hypotheses given to them.
- Graver considers Conrad’s handling of the climax of the story “preposterous”, but notes that the epilogue “returns to the terseness and irony” characteristic of Maupassant.
- "The New York Daily News" described the flick as "a preposterous affair" and noted Borgnine's role as a "Chinese villain" as unconvincing.
- Rights groups and pro democracy parties universally pointed to the lack of independence of the IPCC and the absence of police accountability, and expressed outrage at the report as an absurd and preposterous whitewash.
- The economically preposterous and doubtful monument is still at the center of the relics called " [...] ", but it was long invalid.
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