All 6 Uses

preposterous
in
Starship Troopers
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Now and then somebody boasted, or accused somebody else, of having found a thirty-second way — always something preposterous and usually obscene.†
Chpt 5
The whole incident was so preposterously unlikely that I was never even tempted to mention it to anyone else.†
Chpt 6 *
I did, however, as it seemed downright preposterous to spend money on hotels when there was a clean, soft sack free and so many better ways to spend accumulated pay.†
Chpt 11
Wasn't it preposterous to expose my tender skin to the violence of unfriendly strangers?†
Chpt 12
Preposterous!†
Chpt 12
In place of that optimax of 5 per cent that the M. I. never can reach, many armies in the past commissioned 10 per cent of their number, or even 15 per cent — and sometimes a preposterous 20 per cent!†
Chpt 13

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