例文・使い方で印象づける「preposterous」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...How could Percy—a marked man if ever there was one—go from prison to prison to inquire about Jeanne? The very idea seemed preposterous... 
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
... He had none of thesquat and preposterous negro lineaments, but a hawk nose like an Arab,dark flashing eyes, and a cruel and resolute mouth...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...This being settled, the ferrymen demanded equally preposterous payment for carrying across the caravan...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...I hope that after this explicit disclaimer Ishall no longer be taxed with embracing a system of mythology whichI look upon not merely as false but as preposterous and absurd...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The rule that tastes cannot be disputed isnow the only rule that prevails, and, behind this rule, the basest,meanest and most preposterous individual claims are able to make theirinfluence felt...
Anthony M. Ludovici 「Nietzsche and Art」
...It would be as preposterous and absurd for anything but apart of that man to be reintegrated, as it would be for twoapes, pigs or hens to come from him...
Various 「Astounding Stories, April, 1931」
...As they came closer, he realized this preposterous fact...
Various 「Astounding Stories, February, 1931」
...He learns to look upon himself as anunappreciated Newton, and to see the bitterest malevolence in those whoventure to question his preposterous notions...
Richard A. Proctor 「Myths and Marvels of Astronomy」
...Contemporaryscience, especially astrophysics, renders the whole set of assumptionsunderlying the anthropomorphic and geocentric supernaturalism of thepast absolutely archaic and preposterous...
Dr. D.M. Brooks 「The Necessity of Atheism」
... “Kill you,” returned Dawes, in a tone of surprise at so preposterous a question...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
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