preposterously

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preposterous | American Dictionary

preposterous
adjective
us/prɪˈpɑs·tər·əs/
completely unreasonable and ridiculous; not to be believed:
It was a preposterous idea, and no one took it seriously.

Examples of preposterous

preposterous
There is naught to quibble with here : the preposterous idea that biological evolution violates thermodynamical law is routed.
Even so, the affair has generally been interpreted as preposterous, irrational, and absurd.
And certainly there are preposterous texts in plenty.
Since freedom (at least in its negative sense)38 is an individual value, it would be preposterous to say that 35.
The result is sometimes meager, but it is never preposterous.
The idea of a cosmos centred on our unique and privileged position in space-time became more and more preposterous.
A number of the commentators unabashedly express the view that the basic thesis of this book is preposterous.
Adherents of the standard cognitive science model find this preposterous: for them, perception is always a matter of indirect inference.
This thought experiment merely indicates the scale of the problem (this type of replacement is, of course, preposterous!).
This is preposterous, since the presumption is patently not evidence but an assumption.
This is surely arrogance on a pretty preposterous scale.
I suspect many would reject such a proposal as preposterous not merely because of the flaws in its factual premises.
As an empirical matter, however, this equation is often preposterous.
The very word 'triphthong' sounds faintly preposterous, as if somebody has dared a coinage with 'diphthong' and wants to have some further fun.
The authors are committed to the inclusive aspirations of the site but also mindful of the avoidance of making preposterous claims for electroacoustic music and electroacoustic music studies.
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