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"text": "So I am to send Mrs. Churchill down to the very spot where a treasonable correspondence is most easily managed; and by the ease with which she gets out of a first scrape, give her all possible encouragement to get into another. Well, I was quite right in asking what preposterous request had you come here about!",
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"text": "The preposterous altruism too! If a man takes your coat, give him your cloak. Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.",
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"text": "Leading the attack on the president's very citizenship is the professional vulgarian Donald Trump, who gets away with the kind of preposterous, race-based comments granted few black public figures.",
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"text": "Democrats, too, must be criticised. While they have not made preposterous statements or been threatening or demagogic, they, all too often, have come up short, failing to propose new ideas that can help unwind conflicts raging across the Middle East.",
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"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 266:",
"text": "The preposterous altruism too! If a man takes your coat, give him your cloak. Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014 December 4, Timothy Egan, “A deficit of dignity”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "Leading the attack on the president's very citizenship is the professional vulgarian Donald Trump, who gets away with the kind of preposterous, race-based comments granted few black public figures.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016 January 30, “America deserves more from presidential hopefuls”, in The National, retrieved 2016-01-31:",
"text": "Democrats, too, must be criticised. While they have not made preposterous statements or been threatening or demagogic, they, all too often, have come up short, failing to propose new ideas that can help unwind conflicts raging across the Middle East.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Absurd, or contrary to common sense."
],
"links": [
[
"common sense",
"common sense"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɹɪˈpɒstəɹəs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹɪˈpɒstɹəs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹə-/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹəˈpɑstəɹəs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹəˈpɑstɹəs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "absurd"
},
{
"word": "foolish"
},
{
"word": "irrational"
},
{
"word": "nonsensical"
},
{
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "præposterous"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "anhetʻetʻ",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "անհեթեթ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "absurd",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "աբսուրդ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "absurden",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "абсурден"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nelep",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "нелеп"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "荒謬的"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huāngmiùde",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "荒谬的"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "absurdní"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "nesmyslný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "směšný"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "meningsløs"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "absurd"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "grotesk"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "van de pot gerukt"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "potsierlijk"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "järjetön"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "mieletön"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "naurettava"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "posketon"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "aberrant"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "absurde"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "insensé"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "ridicule"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "uazro",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "უაზრო"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "absurduli",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "აბსურდული"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "grotesk"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "unmöglich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "unerträglich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "unsagbar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "unsäglich"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "esztelen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "oktalan"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "nevetséges"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "abszurd"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "képtelen"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "fáránlegur"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "irragionevole"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "insensato"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "assurdo"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "eocheogunieopda",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "어처구니없다"
},
{
"code": "mg",
"lang": "Malagasy",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "tsy mampino"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "haraki"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "meningsløs"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "bakvendt"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "niedorzeczny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "absurdo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "insensato"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nelépyj",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "неле́пый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "absúrdnyj",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "абсу́рдный"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "nezmyselný"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "nemysliteľný"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "absurdný"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "absurdo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "insensato"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "ridículo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "prepóstero"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "grotesk"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "bakvänd"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "befängd"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bezhlúzdyj",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "безглу́здий"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "absúrdnyj",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "абсу́рдний"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nisenítnyj",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "нісені́тний"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "vô lý"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "afresymol"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "absurd",
"sense": "absurd, or contrary to common sense",
"word": "אַבסורד"
}
],
"word": "preposterous"
}
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