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UK
/aʊtɹˈeɪdʒəsnəs/
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[ US /aʊˈtɹeɪdʒəsnəs/ ]
[ US /aʊˈtɹeɪdʒəsnəs/ ]
NOUN
- the quality of being outrageous
- excessive excess
How To Use outrageousness In A Sentence
- I was elated and horrified by the sheer outrageousness of the problem we had set before them.
- But it is simpleminded to take the outrageousness at face value. Times, Sunday Times
- I was only a nipper but I loved all the outrageousness and the scandalous double-entendres even then.
- Top Gear lies in Clarkson's apparently untrammelled political incorrectness, which is as much part of his schtick as Gordon Ramsay's swearing, Graham Norton's outrageousness, or Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- Progress through irrational and astounding blunders, whose outrageousness bedwarfed the wildest clichés of romance, was what Kennaston found everywhere. The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
- They rely upon a language of ‘verbal extravagance and outrageousness’.
- The outrageousness of his action is matched only by the blithe indifference with which he apparently expects to carry it off.