All 17 Uses of
preposterous
in
The Fountainhead
- Keating stopped when he recognized the preposterous orange hair in the darkness of the porch.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- Francon shrugged apologetically, disclaiming all blame for the preposterous suggestion—"he wants it to look like this."†
Chpt 1.8
- It's preposterous!†
Chpt 1.11
- Mrs. Walling called it preposterous, and Mrs. Hooper—crude.†
Chpt 1.13
- Remarks were made openly on the decline of John Fargo, who had topped his poor business judgment by an investment in a preposterous kind of a building; which proved, it was stated, that the public would not accept these architectural innovations.†
Chpt 1.14
- The house made the words preposterous.†
Chpt 2.2
- He thought that he was being preposterous.†
Chpt 2.5
- He wore evening clothes and they looked well on his tall, thin figure, but somehow it seemed that he did not belong in them; the orange hair looked preposterous with formal dress; besides, she did not like his face; that face suited a work gang or an army, it had no place in her drawing room.†
Chpt 2.6
- Somebody ought to warn you against me," he said to people, in the tone of uttering the most preposterous thing in the world.†
Chpt 2.9
- They said that it was preposterous, exhibitionist and phony.†
Chpt 2.10
- But it was the unstated that gave meaning to the relaxed simplicity of these hours; their eyes laughed silently at the preposterous contract whenever they looked at each other.†
Chpt 2.10
- Ellsworth Toohey wrote: "The paradox in all this preposterous noise is the fact that Mr. Caleb Bradley is the victim of a grave injustice.†
Chpt 4.1
- You don't think it's preposterous to say that to me of all people?†
Chpt 4.2
- Yes, of course, I mean this preposterous business of Mr. Gail Wynand.†
Chpt 4.9
- His eyes went to the brown skirt, to the tailored jacket, costly and cold like a uniform, to the hand with a hole in the finger of an expensive glove, to the lapel that bore a preposterous ornament—a bow-legged Mexican with red-enameled pants—stuck there in a clumsy attempt at pertness; to the thin lips, to the glasses, to the eyes.†
Chpt 4.10
- The gay mockery, the tone of uttering the most preposterous thing he could think of, told her how far he was from guessing the rest.†
Chpt 4.13
- If you consider the behavior of the world at present and the disaster toward which it is moving you might find the undertaking preposterous.†
Chpt 4.19
Definition:
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(preposterous) absurd, outrageous, silly, or completely unreasonable