All 5 Uses of
preposterous
in
Middlemarch
- His fear lest Miss Brooke should have run away to join the Moravian Brethren, or some preposterous sect unknown to good society, was a little allayed by the knowledge that Mrs. Cadwallader always made the worst of things.†
Chpt 1
- The human mind has at no period accepted a moral chaos; and so preposterous a result was not strictly conceivable.†
Chpt 1
- The preposterousness of the notion that he could at once set up a satisfactory establishment as a married man was a sufficient guarantee against danger.†
Chpt 3 *
- Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.†
Chpt 3
- He was aware that the world would regard such a sentiment as preposterous, especially in relation to a woman of one-and-twenty; the practice of "the world" being to treat of a young widow's second marriage as certain and probably near, and to smile with meaning if the widow acts accordingly.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(preposterous) absurd, outrageous, silly, or completely unreasonable