Example sentences for: preposterous

How can you use “preposterous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Dudley Edwards said it was "preposterous" to blame the debacle on Trimble, who, defending himself in an op-ed article for the Times of London Friday, wrote that the Ulster Unionists have an undeserved reputation for saying "no."

  • The film is said to be "the best Cinderella movie ever" (Mick LaSalle, the San Francisco Chronicle ), though politically minded critics call it "a preposterous polemic celebrating modern feminist platitudes" (Gary Arnold, the Washington Times ). (Here's the official site.)

  • Nathan Myhrvold makes the preposterous assertion that calls for a ban on cloning amount to discrimination against people based on another genetic trait.

  • In fact, many of the accusations--for example, that he was really trying to justify male philandering--were simply preposterous, and others could be countered easily.

  • But then, again, Hitler wasn't taken very seriously at the start, either, with his preposterous rhetoric and silly little moustache.


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