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They can't be seriously considering such a preposterous idea.preposterous = completely unreasonable
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It is a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history.
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That's preposterous! (source)
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"The charges leveled against my client are preposterous," he said.† (source)
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She has no kids, which means she bought the V-suit for herself The very idea is preposterous.† (source)
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You told me that preposterous story about the apples of Nizhny Novgorod.† (source)
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The idea is so preposterous.† (source)
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In the center was an oversize one of Desi and Amy back in high school, in tennis whites—the two so preposterously stylish, so monied-lush they could have been a frame from a Hitchcock movie.† (source)
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They do not see how completely inverted their vision has become even when I throw its preposterousness in their faces, as I repeatedly do in this very play.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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The very idea is preposterous.† (source)
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But if the odds are so preposterously stacked against the poor—machetes versus Uzis, donkeys versus tanks, stones versus missiles, or even typhoid versus cancer—then is it responsible, is it wise, to push the poor to claim what is theirs by right?† (source)
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The preposterousness of the case was beyond discussion, and they went in to dinner.† (source)
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Yes, he'd had Annie type it up and run it out for them to sign, but that didn't stop the wingnuts in Ashland from re-enacting the scene, one of them asking questions, another waving his arms around in reply, a third spewing preposterous interpretations.† (source)
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Seventy times seven times have I plucked up my hat and been about to depart — Seventy times seven times have you preposterously forced me to resume my seat.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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It was so preposterous —how could I possibly believe it?† (source)
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