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Definition
absurd, outrageous, silly, or completely unreasonable
- Preposterous!Chapter 3 — The First Customer (51% in)
- The monkey, meanwhile, with a thick tail curling out into preposterous prolixity from beneath his tartans, took his station at the Italian's feet.Chapter 11 — The Arched Window (36% in)
- She remembered some vague intimations, on her brother's part, which—if the supposition were not essentially preposterous—might have been so interpreted.Chapter 16 — Clifford's Chamber (25% in)
- No matter how preposterous or insane, a purpose is a Godsend to them.Chapter 16 — Clifford's Chamber (88% in)
There are no more uses of "preposterous" in The House of the Seven Gables.
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