Both Uses of
preposterous
in
Gone with the Wind
- When she awoke the next morning, he was gone and had it not been for the rumpled pillow beside her, she would have thought the happenings of the night before a wild preposterous dream.†
Chpt 5.54
- Could it be possible that he had heard and believed the preposterous lie about Scarlett and Ashley and become jealous?†
Chpt 5.56 *
Definition:
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(preposterous) absurd, outrageous, silly, or completely unreasonable