preposterous

How To Use preposterous In A Sentence

• The only way you'll be laughing at this romantic drama is at how preposterous the plot is. The Sun
• The whole thing has been a hideous blunder, and the idea of encumbering a force of four thousand men with something like thirty thousand camp followers, and with a train of no less than nineteen thousand bullocks, to say nothing of other draught animals, is the most preposterous thing I ever heard of. At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War
• Lanikai is a community of wealthy, preposterously fit, good-looking people who seem to be constantly in motion.
• You can dismantle the preposterous plot with a small spanner. Times, Sunday Times
• You can dismantle the preposterous plot with a small spanner. Times, Sunday Times
• By the end the preposterous level of interaction between these characters left me rolling my eyes.
• Even a sensible idea or a fine principle is exaggerated to the point that it becomes preposterous and untenable.
• Still, there was something going around in the mid to late 90's in the gaming industry that doesn't really seem as prevalent today: Outrageous, preposterous ambitions to cram a complete history of everything into every plot point, every gameplay system, every FMV sequence ... it was like the late Romantic period at the turn of the 1900's, where Gustav Mahler could say "To write a symphony is to construct the world" and mean it. Great Big Bites
• If a painfully hip novel set in the European fashion industry didn't contain the requisite amount of preening egomania, airy-fairy posturing and general preposterousness, you would probably ask for your money back.
• The only reason the idea seems so preposterous is because we refuse to live like them.