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- Preoccupation with self
- Preoccupied
- Preoccupy
- Preoccupying
- Preordain
- Prepackaged food
- Preparatory
- Prepare
- Prepare for
- Preparing
- Preponderance
- Preponderancy
- Preponderate
- Prepossess
- Prepossessed
- Preposterous
- Preposterousness
- Prepped
- Preprint
- Prerequisite
- Prerevolutionary
- Prescience
- Prescient
- Prescribe
Definition of the day : « preposterousness »
- noun extravagance
- The preposterousness of the whole affair kept hammering at her thoughts.
- Extract from : « Stubble » by George Looms
- Then he laughed; he had to make himself laugh at the preposterousness of his idea.
- Extract from : « Fidelity » by Susan Glaspell
- They all laughed, and Sabre, realising the preposterousness of such a notion, laughed with them.
- Extract from : « If Winter Comes » by A.S.M. Hutchinson
- But then, while still under the conviction of this preposterousness, the story itself came to my hand and I began to read.
- Extract from : « When Winter Comes to Main Street » by Grant Martin Overton
- So he checked his wife with amazement at the preposterousness of her carrying bundles while Sir Walter Raleigh was at hand.
- Extract from : « The Cup of Fury » by Rupert Hughes
- When he recovered, the preposterousness of these semi-magic ways of attempting wisdom was plain to him.
- Extract from : « The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind » by Herbert George Wells
- Have had to-day a lovely, sublime example of that preposterousness which so often characterizes American humor.
- Extract from : « A Frenchman in America » by Max O'Rell
- What a yardful of curious comment, what satirical note on the preposterousness of human existence!
- Extract from : « A Mere Accident » by George Moore
- And he laughed, quietly but heartily, at what he evidently considered the preposterousness of such an idea.
- Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 » by Various
- The preposterousness of this judgment as a whole must not blind us to the fragment of truth which it included.
- Extract from : « Life of John Milton » by Richard Garnett