(a.) Hence: Not according with usage; strange; rude; barbarous; uncouth; clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is not outlandish to ask whether different central governments have deliberately promoted development elsewhere.
(2) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
(3) Likewise, Brynjolfsson doesn’t find the idea of machine-generated populist luxury outlandish.
(4) Alfred McTear's objections are not as outlandish as they might seem.
(5) According to Kadyrov’s multiple outlandish, sometimes confused, statements the enemies aren’t just at the gates, but have entered the castle and are conspiring to take the country down.
(6) Donald Trump has made his outlandish policy of forcing Mexico to pay for his giant wall the centerpiece of his campaign,” said Podesta.
(7) For environmentalists his mining activities are no less outlandish.
(8) An 8% interest rate is not outlandish; the fact it strikes us as so is a measure of how addicted we are to cheap credit.
(9) "Consumers are beginning to realise that this technology isn't an outlandish, futurist concept coming to life from The Jetsons but in fact can be used efficiently and effectively to solve everyday problems," says Alex Hawkinson, CEO of home automation company SmartThings.
(10) As Perry has got older, Claire’s outfits have become increasingly outlandish (he has called her Bo Peep look the “crack cocaine of femininity”).
(11) You get these music videos the kids love, where it’s completely outlandish, luxury everywhere.
(12) Natasha and the other women say that Gary talks of the Raëlian philosophy of sexual freedom, but absolutely deny that the treatment has been used as an attempt to convert them to the outlandish religion.
(13) The only person dressed more outlandishly than Ross and he foolishly hugs her like an adolescent.
(14) Anything was considered, no matter how outlandish.” A former caterer, O’Regan had a long string of innovations behind him, including the establishment of the world’s first duty free shop at the Shannon airport in 1947 after the Irish parliament passed a new law , the Customs Free Act, which exempted transit and embarking passengers, goods and aircraft from normal customs procedures.
(15) The positive case for remaining in the EU will also be made by the Scottish National party’s foreign affairs spokesman, Alex Salmond , on Monday, when he will condemn the warnings about the risks of Brexit as, “at best puerile and at worst outlandish scaremongering”.
(16) When his deal to buy Leeds was confirmed, he invited journalists to his lawyers’ office in London, regaling the assembled crowd with outlandish tales of pot-washing in 1970s England and sincerely inviting a reporter to play with his rock band in Sardinia.
(17) Presented with Trump’s statement that he would go beyond waterboarding, Burr simply replied: “I would not support bringing back waterboarding.” Senator Jeff Sessions, a Trump surrogate who sits on the Senate armed services committee, sought to downplay some of the billionaire’s more outlandish comments on torture and targeting the families of terrorists.
(18) He is in many ways a fascinating player all round: a beautifully balanced two-footed playmaker who is at the same time not particularly athletic, not particularly quick, not particularly strong, not blessed with disorienting charisma or given to outlandish moments of extraordinary skill.
(19) The fancy is so outlandish, yet the unsettling instinct hidden in the luxuriance of the poison garden so resolutely explored, it is no wonder that, on reading this and other of his tales after his father had died in 1864, Julian Hawthorne wrote that he was "unable to comprehend how a man such as I knew my father to have been could have written such books".
(20) Trump has been tabloid fodder for decades, for a colorful personal life, a propensity for outlandish statements and, of course, his hair.
Staid
Definition:
(a.) Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, or fanciful.
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Example Sentences:
(1) The trial, originally expected to be staid, has exposed severe dysfunction within Bo's family and detailed the complicated tangle of allegiances and affairs that led to his downfall .
(2) The established format sounds a bit staid until Balding starts discussing it.
(3) Recent politically sensitive cases have been staid and straightforward affairs – last month, former railways minister Liu Zhijun was handed a suspended death sentence for bribery after just three and a half hours in the dock.
(4) That first book, The Path to Power , was greeted as a revelation not only for its insights into the true nature of Johnson but for its transformation of the staid form of political biography.
(5) According to the NetEase report, the rules do not apply to CCTV1, although that may be because its output is already more staid than that of its rivals.
(6) Steve Crawshaw, who turned Bradford and Bingley from a staid building society into a specialist in self-certified mortgages and left the company weeks before it had to be nationalised, has apparently retired to the Yorkshire countryside: his only publicly-recorded activity these days is as the chair of the advisory board of the School of Management at Bradford University, who forwarded him my list of questions, but I heard nothing back.
(7) I'd seen younger, more erratic and more hyped bands (Young Bloods, Fat White Family) earlier in the day and expected something more staid and predictable.
(8) Ryley said: "Whatever you think of Fox News, there is no denying that it has shaken up the sometimes staid world of US TV news by using commentators like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity alongside its core news output."
(9) Why had investment bankers been allowed to over-run a supposedly staid Scottish bank?
(10) Even the usually staid weekly, Die Zeit, headlines its main Greek crisis story with the headline: "Are the Greeks Potty?"
(11) The prostaglandin-E2-concentrations in the treated pregnant animals decreased by half during the first hour of the experiment, whereas they staid fairly constant in the untreated group of animals.
(12) As well as being the first black minister, Gething is seen as part of a new generation of younger politicians who will regenerate the Welsh assembly, which is sometimes criticised for being staid and lacking dynamism.
(13) She points to a pirate outfit in the exhibition worn by Adam Ant (another snake-hips) and links it deftly to the piecrust collar worn by Lady Diana Spencer when she first came to public notice as a sweet and rather staid nursery teacher in 1980.
(14) A Shanghai newspaper learned of her groundbreaking research and "called for an end to the madness" in an editorial comment subsequently republished by the People's Daily – in what would have been an astonishing move for the staid official Communist party newspaper.
(15) These tools are also being used to replace staid development paradigms, by organising and developing African-driven institutions.
(16) But that's not the only problem at the company: sudden reorganizations and changing strategies favored hot copycat products and left its staid legacy businesses orphaned.That, in turn, left Microsoft marooned between a fading past and an uncertain future.
(17) As if to underline the idea that politics in Wales defies the staid norms of Westminster, both front-runners in the Plaid leadership contest are women.
(18) The move was designed to transform its image from staid telecoms company into a 21st-century multimedia business.
(19) Bannon was casual with open-collared shirt, Priebus more staid in suit and tie.
(20) Staid courtyards winced to the sounds of Beggars Banquet, The White Album, Big Pink and Dr John The Night Tripper drifting through leaded windows.