preposterousness

Example Sentences

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Perhaps by now you’ve picked up on the preposterousness in this parade of terms.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025

When she first came to Los Angeles 50 years ago, its whimsical preposterousness was her “personal welcoming committee to the city.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2022

But she’s also fully clued in to the preposterousness of a 24-year-old millionaire singer issuing prescriptions, and the soporific luxury of her lounges on the beach.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2021

It’s a movie about death, honor and the desire to take control of fate that is also a knowing exploration of the preposterousness of such notions.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2021

There is about it the same dryness, the same quaintness, the same preposterousness, the same subtlety.

From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by O'Rell, Max