adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
outrageous
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The chairman said that Mr McNeil's views were outrageous.
outrageous (= shocking and extremely unfair )
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He was drunk and his accusations were becoming more and more outrageous.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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This was not quite as outrageous as it might seem at first.
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She'd had some requests made of her in her time but none seemingly as outrageous as this.
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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.
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The claim that he could deliver this unheard-of conviviality for under $ 1, 000 was even more outrageous .
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Which of the two scenarios is more outrageous ?
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How many more outrageous examples of excess in political fund raising and spending do they need to be called to action?
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But Moore is far more outrageous than her pop-culture image.
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The most outrageous concerns one of its joint authors.
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Yes, but you were forced to surround these scientific gifts with the most outrageous mummery.
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Pamela stopped, possibly the most outrageous idea she'd ever had popping fully-fledged into her head.
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The most outrageous examples involve force-feeding massive doses of sugar substitutes to white laboratory mice, who eventually grew tumors.
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It will have changed more than even the most outrageous thinking is likely to encompass.
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Joe was one of the most outrageous of the gamblers, not least of all in his choice of conveyance.
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Their most outrageous step toward re-regulation is rigging the stockmarket, which officials once disdained as a mucky casino.
so
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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.
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Oh, David, he's so outrageous .
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The idea was so outrageous it was unbelievable.
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The logic was so outrageous that Congress had to act.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I've always thought it outrageous that the poor have to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
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She accused Sloan of telling outrageous lies.
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The President accused the writer of an outrageous personal attack on his wife.
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They showed a scene from Almodovar's outrageous new movie.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I don't think Kenneth was trying to be outrageous at all.
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Last night Borg's lawyer said her demand was outrageous .
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Mansell had become the master of the unexpected, the outrageous pass.
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The Coen brothers make two kinds of films: big and outrageous or small and outrageous.
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They are also eccentric, outrageous , and, at times, totally out of control.
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To put a kid like Delia in eight-hour isolation for accepting a cigarette from a friend is bizarre and outrageous .