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preposterous

adjective as in ridiculous, bizarre

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"We love it. We absolutely love it! It's so preposterous."

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Associated Newspapers has denied claims that it hacked phones, calling them "preposterous smears".

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They said the demonstration showed the Palestine Action ban was "impossible to enforce and a preposterous waste of resources".

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Army veteran Rob Begland called “preposterous” the notion of 6,000 veterans from across the nation being “dumped into Los Angeles.”

The Indian prime minister is a liar and a miscreant, but even he seems to grasp that such an act would be preposterous.

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