OUTRAGEOUS


Meaning of OUTRAGEOUS in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

outrageous

The chairman said that Mr McNeil's views were outrageous.

outrageous (= shocking and extremely unfair )

He was drunk and his accusations were becoming more and more outrageous.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

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This was not quite as outrageous as it might seem at first.

She'd had some requests made of her in her time but none seemingly as outrageous as this.

But with an 8 litre engine, expect the petrol bills to be as outrageous as the car.

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You can get more and more outrageous if you wish.

The claim that he could deliver this unheard-of conviviality for under $ 1, 000 was even more outrageous .

Which of the two scenarios is more outrageous ?

How many more outrageous examples of excess in political fund raising and spending do they need to be called to action?

But Moore is far more outrageous than her pop-culture image.

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The most outrageous concerns one of its joint authors.

Yes, but you were forced to surround these scientific gifts with the most outrageous mummery.

Pamela stopped, possibly the most outrageous idea she'd ever had popping fully-fledged into her head.

The most outrageous examples involve force-feeding massive doses of sugar substitutes to white laboratory mice, who eventually grew tumors.

It will have changed more than even the most outrageous thinking is likely to encompass.

Joe was one of the most outrageous of the gamblers, not least of all in his choice of conveyance.

Their most outrageous step toward re-regulation is rigging the stockmarket, which officials once disdained as a mucky casino.

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It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction.

Oh, David, he's so outrageous .

The idea was so outrageous it was unbelievable.

The logic was so outrageous that Congress had to act.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I've always thought it outrageous that the poor have to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

She accused Sloan of telling outrageous lies.

The President accused the writer of an outrageous personal attack on his wife.

They showed a scene from Almodovar's outrageous new movie.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

I don't think Kenneth was trying to be outrageous at all.

Last night Borg's lawyer said her demand was outrageous .

Mansell had become the master of the unexpected, the outrageous pass.

The Coen brothers make two kinds of films: big and outrageous or small and outrageous.

They are also eccentric, outrageous , and, at times, totally out of control.

To put a kid like Delia in eight-hour isolation for accepting a cigarette from a friend is bizarre and outrageous .

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