preposterous

• “Mr. Pawlenty attributed the current impasse on what he called "preposterous" proposed spending increases.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Minnesota's Woes Shadow Pawlenty

• “I knew Aunt Agatha would be taking advantage of my long absence to retail what she termed my preposterous scheme to Uncle Keith, and that I should have the benefit of his opinion on my return, and this thought made me restless.”

  The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886

• “How preposterous is Congressional oversight of U.S. intelligence?”

  The Wall Street Journal: Pssst. There's a Covert . . .

• “She must not put faith in preposterous representations, nor may facts within her observation show the representations to be so obviously false that to rely on them requires closing her eyes to the truth.”

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• “The test question is this: If the idea of abandoning the present highway system and constructing a new one from scratch is economically preposterous, would it not remain preposterous if one substituted “existing power plants” for “interstate highway system” and “windmills and solar power collectors” for “tunnels”?”

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• “People dress up in preposterous costumes, drink large quantities of beer, and take part in -- or toast -- the parade floats that every self-respecting town puts on.”

  Boing Boing: July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006 Archives

• “I do apologize for misplacing the r in preposterous, though I imagine you quite understood what I meant.”

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• “I am here using the word preposterous in its dictionary sense of "contrary to nature, reason or commonsense," for in the light of modern scientific knowledge, human behavior is, demonstrably, characterized by the interaction of cultural and biological variables, and, as Melvin Konner has recently put it "an analysis of the causes of human nature that tends to ignore either the genes or the environmental factors may be safely discarded.”

  Evolving Margaret Mead

• “While the prosecution argues that Dunn and his team manipulated the books to claim the bonuses, the defense said such a fraud would have required the acquiescence of hundreds of accountants at both Nortel and Deloitte, an idea it called "preposterous.”

  Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion

• “(AP) polymath22 US: NKorean war damages claim 'preposterous' - The”

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