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outrageous

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adjective

of the nature of or involving gross injury or wrong: an outrageous slander.

grossly offensive to the sense of right or decency: outrageous behavior; an outrageous remark.

passing reasonable bounds; intolerable or shocking: an outrageous price.

violent in action or temper.

highly unusual or unconventional; extravagant; remarkable: a child of the most outrageous precocity; a fancy dive performed with outrageous ease.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English < Middle French outrageus. See outrage, -ous

Related forms

out·ra·geous·ly, adverb

out·ra·geous·ness, noun

Synonyms
1, 2, 3. See flagrant. 2. repugnant, insulting, shocking, revolting. 3. unthinkable, appalling.

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Example Sentences

Gomes loves preaching in a college pulpit, he says, is that it gives him the freedom to say outrageous things.

Randolph to conceal her meeting with the president, that would be outrageous.

In due time you'll be doing outrageous tricks that you once thought were impervious.

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Gomes loves preaching in a college pulpit, he says, is that it gives him the freedom to say outrageous things.

Randolph to conceal her meeting with the president, that would be outrageous.

In due time you'll be doing outrageous tricks that you once thought were impervious.

In order to attract attention, their rhetoric is ratcheted up beyond the point where it becomes outrageous and plainly wrong.

They let you enjoy their company without making outrageous demands.

The drone business has had its share of outrageous claims and dubious businessmen.

American workers have for decades-decades-suffered the givebacks and arrows of outrageous fortunes.

Most scientific articles in the main newspapers range from the utterly laughable to the outrageous.

Shortly you'll be doing outrageous stunts that you once concluded were unachievable.

What is deplorable is that some of you are paid to post outrageous comments on any discussion of climate.

And it continues with all the outrageous things the poet is waiting to do when she gets a certain age.

It's not outrageous to ask someone one or two hours off to stick to your schedule.

But for outsidersto appeal to a university to deny someone tenure is outrageous.

The whole thing is now past the point of outrageous.

Shortly you'll be achieving outrageous stunts that you once speculated were impervious.

Food prices are outrageous now, so whoever builds one of these is going to want an immediate return on the investment.

Homeowners here trade a bit of privacy for views that make the area's outrageous real estate prices seem not so crazy after all.

The more outrageous or daring the activity, the more potential points for the team.

Actually, our tipping culture borders on the outrageous.

But many of his fellow francophone philosophers regard him as too outrageous to speak to.

Only on a shoot, where quiet is key, can you appreciate the outrageous volume of a refrigerator motor.

Others are downright inaccurate or make outrageous claims.

The seeds of the company that would build outrageous supercars were sown.

But asking a professor to stop teaching in the discipline they were initially hired to teach in is outrageous.

If fish were bacteria, this would not be an outrageous suggestion.

Agents are also clued in to the outrageous promotions run by many national carriers.

All of which brings me to the guilty pleasure of outrageous speculation.

So it's not altogether outrageous or new in the history of ideas, but it's been out of fashion for nearly two centuries.

The outrageous and unjustified salaries of administrators and the addition of layers of administration are the main reasons.

It was not outrageous to believe lower expected inflation decreased the premium on long-dated governments.

However outrageous the galleries and boutiques, it is fun and offers visitors a new experience.

Six billion people on this planet have too much energy and too much outrageous smarts to stay home.

Come take a peek into some of the grueling, outrageous and ultimately charming hometown heroes of our favorite theatrical medium.

The disorganization and inability to follow instructions is outrageous.

Outrageous import quotas keep the domestic price of sugar at double that of the world price.

What's outrageous is that the our navy had restrictions on their training at all.

The question is not how tragic, or how outrageous this is.

We agree that the actual salaries are not that important, however outrageous they might have been.

It is lazy outrageous to read one book and reject evolution in favor of creationism.

With memories of picket signs and protests, many recall their outrageous behavior during that idealistic time.

Your proposal would be considered outrageous in my discipline.

But when it comes to professional wrestling, outrageous fakery is central to the appeal.

Mencken offers a lesson on how to respond to outrageous pseudoscientific claims.

That's not some outrageous claim by poorly informed peaceniks or some muckraking journalist:.

Kaman had suffered outrageous conduct and emotional distress.

They see it as having created a pretext for outrageous price increases and as a cause of the economy's dismal performance.

In due time you'll be creating outrageous tricks that you once thought were impervious.

If used sensibly these can often reduce outrageous exploitation and give things a nudge in the right direction.

Nike cut deep grooves into the sole of the shoe, allowing an outrageous amount of flexibility compared to normal running shoes.

Now that is a truly mind-boggling defeatism, if not an outrageous cop-out.

Soon you'll be achieving outrageous tricks that you once speculated were out of the question.

I've seen some pretty outrageous stuff in my arena career.

It would be outrageous not to reward all municipal employees''.

It takes outrageous profit or provocation for someone to do down a relative with whom they share a lot of genes.

Wind power and it's outrageous claims are easier to expose.

According to many prominent ecologists, the authors' calculations are outrageous and terribly.

Indignant locals can be merciless as the foreigner is objectified, therefore allowing any injustice no matter how outrageous.

And to threaten a professor's career because of such behavior is outrageous.

The costs merely of administering a conventionally clotted tax system are outrageous.

In due time you'll be creating outrageous stunts that you once concluded were impossible.

The result is a lot of outrageous metal mixed with human drama.

I've read–and written–some pretty outrageous letters of recommendation during my career.

In due time you'll be accomplishing outrageous tricks that you once thought were out of the question.

He spammed newsgroups asking for outrageous content.

One of the statements was so outrageous it made me laugh.

Predicting a large earthquake in an area where there is always a possibility of one occurring, is outrageous.

Soon you'll be accomplishing outrageous stunts that you once concluded were insurmountable.

And give attention to appearances, even if you believe it's outrageous that they should matter.

Loyalty and discretion prevent her from spilling any of the many outrageous beans she could have scattered on her ducal floor.

Soon you'll be achieving outrageous tricks that you once speculated were insurmountable.

Some of the special moves are so outrageous you can't help but laugh.

Tantalising but outrageous attempts to glamorise smoking through billboards and films may largely be a thing of the.

Equally outrageous is the suggestion of announcing it as you walk across the stage at graduation.

Certainly, having the issuer pay for his own rating is an outrageous conflict of interest that must be eliminated.

In due time you'll be executing outrageous stunts that you once concluded were unachievable.

Add to this travesty the outrageous bailout sums that history now shows us the banks didn't really need.

But in free societies, anything-however outrageous it seems at first-becomes respectable after a while.

She amped up the outrageous backstories and cashed in on the pathos.

Second, they are drawn to pranks and diversions that are educational-and ideally outrageous.

In a short time you'll be taking on outrageous tricks that you once concluded were out of the question.

Like the ones who justify wildly outrageous costs by giving things fancy names.

He wont get fired, frankly he has said far more outrageous things in the past and they haven't got rid of him.

But the commission's ire was raised not so much by the lack of efficiency as by the outrageous cost of the transfers.

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World English Dictionary

outrageous (aʊtˈreɪdʒəs)

—*adj*
1.	being or having the nature of an outrage
2.	grossly offensive to decency, authority, etc
3.	violent or unrestrained in behaviour or temperament
4.	extravagant or immoderate

out'rageously

—*adv*

out'rageousness

—n

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Word Origin & History

outrageous

early 14c., from O.Fr. outrageus, see outrage; modern teen slang usages of it unwittingly approach the original and etymological sense of outrage. Related: Outrageously.

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