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The word "Preposterous" is correct and well written in English
It is used to describe something that is absurd, ridiculous, or contrary to reason. Example: "The idea that we could solve the problem overnight is preposterous." Alternatives include "absurd" or "ridiculous."
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Preposterous
adjective
Absurd, or contrary to common sense.
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An Orange Order spokesman said: "This preposterous decision by the Parades Commission only underlines the increasing perception that its determinations are dictated by the threat of physical force opposition to our parades.
Whitechapel, he considered, had been much belied, and many of his fellow countrymen had come away from it with preposterous stories of murder and misery.
48 min: Polanski is booked for a preposterous challenge on Pilar.
And the UK government has used every manner of evasion – including trying out the preposterous argument that because the term genocide was adopted by the UN in 1948, it couldn't be applied retrospectively.
Michael Keaton is a washed-up movie star trying to reinvent himself as a serious actor on Broadway, but plagued with hallucinatory visions of "Birdman" – the preposterous superhero he once played.
One of the biggest reasons for the surge in people prepared to pay preposterous amounts to smugglers for the uncertain prospect of reaching safety in Italy is that land routes into Europe are virtually closed.
The demon has invaded you... "It sometimes happens that people completely unsuited for word-play will improvise an endless string of puns and wholly improbable idea relationships fit to outdo the ablest masters of this preposterous craft.
A few days later, Gove talked to the FT about the "ridiculous" concentration of old boys from just one school, comparing Eton's "preposterous" contemporary grip at the Tories to Lord Salisbury's nepotistic hold a century before.
Bonucci did not seem quite so tough when executing one of the most preposterous tumbles you will ever see during his team's game at Palermo.
Sven-Goran Eriksson became a preposterous playboy, linked with such increasingly outré schemes that it always comes as something of a start to remember he once made IFK Gothenburg one of the leading forces in Europe.
To get knotted up about spoiling the end of any television series is simply a preposterous waste of anyone's energy.
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