Sample Sentences for
preposterous
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    "The charges leveled against my client are preposterous," he said.†  (source)
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    Even some of the more preposterous ones, to see if some merit was missed in them.†  (source)
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    It was so preposterous —how could I possibly believe it?†  (source)
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    This question is so preposterous coming from the Commandant that I almost laugh.†  (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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    You told me that preposterous story about the apples of Nizhny Novgorod.†  (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 case was beyond discussion, and they went in to dinner.†  (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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    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 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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    Besides, our story was too preposterous not to be real.†  (source)
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