[
UK
/pɹɪpˈɒstəɹəsli/
]
ADVERB
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so as to arouse or deserve laughter
her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well
How To Use preposterously In A Sentence
- Lanikai is a community of wealthy, preposterously fit, good-looking people who seem to be constantly in motion.
- A single bulb hung from the ceiling and some one had adorned it with a preposterously frilly white shade.
- These are usually the very people that colleagues consider the most preposterously incompetent. Times, Sunday Times
- Ned and Stacey asks the question of whether such a preposterously retrograde idea could be the basis of a comedy in the 1990s.
- You may balk at the cost of your highlights, but there are far more preposterously priced haircuts going on. Times, Sunday Times
- You may balk at the cost of your highlights, but there are far more preposterously priced haircuts going on. Times, Sunday Times
- As it stands, this preposterously long-term deal only mitigates the first year of that possibility.
- Individually and culturally, we are preposterously nostalgic for it.
- It seemed preposterously overdressed and overeager for the byways of my small hometown.
- The palace and costumes are preposterously lavish. Times, Sunday Times