(a.) Having that first which ought to be last; inverted in order.
(a.) Contrary to nature or reason; not adapted to the end; utterly and glaringly foolish; unreasonably absurd; perverted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reading these latest statistics, it’s crucial that our generation – millennials, Gen Y, whatever we want to call ourselves – abandons this preposterous narrative.
(2) You could understand why the Met was frantic to find who had stabbed Rachel Nickell 49 times on Wimbledon Common while her screaming child looked on, but the case against Stagg was preposterous.
(3) Preposterous claims by ministers that cutting tax credits means “cultural change” for people already in work show how far this is from being the “workers’ party”.
(4) The league looks more preposterous still, however, if you simply ignore Muresul Deva for a moment.
(5) China's foreign ministry called the allegations preposterous and accused the US of double standards.
(6) So I said: "Isn't it preposterous that you're so cheap?"
(7) Most preposterous has been the British prime minister David Cameron lecturing Greeks on their responsibilities from outside the eurozone .
(8) This is why, preposterously, America is able to confirm plans to send four shiny F-16 fighter jets to Egyptian military on Thursday, while still talking democracy and inclusion for Egypt's transitional process.
(9) "It is perplexing and preposterous to hear human rights complaints from the US, where torture and kidnapping are legal in the 21st century."
(10) But the State Department's indignation over the leaks of allegedly valuable secrets was, and remains, preposterous.
(11) There's the pot that presidential hopefuls admit to having smoked in a youthful-experiment-type way, and there's the pot criminals currently serving life sentences under preposterous three strikes legislation were caught with.
(12) In common usage, “myth” is at best the word we use to refer to amusingly preposterous urban legends – tales about albino alligators in the Manhattan sewers or the Holy Grail’s hiding place under the floor of a Paris shopping mall.
(13) What happens, we’ve seen as a case study, is what happened in Greece.” He added: “I think she was suggesting if Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party got the chance to impose its fiscal policies on the United Kingdom that is a very real threat.” A spokesman for Corbyn described the claims as “preposterous”.
(14) The notion that it might start with another body on another beach seemed preposterous if not a little cheapening of what went before.
(15) That the LMA has sought to criticise the club for the timing of the report to the FA is preposterous, because the offensive communications have been in the knowledge and possession of the LMA for many months.
(16) Miliband, as I observed some time ago in a piece for ConservativeHome , should have dismissed as a preposterous anachronism the Tory attack on the trade union link.
(17) A nurse who faces being struck off over a botched Ebola screening at Heathrow airport has said it is “preposterous” that she would have concealed knowledge that Pauline Cafferkey was unwell.
(18) The size of the hole that Iran is in,” Szubin said, “we’re talking about a hole that could be described in one sense as a $200bn hole, which are the losses that we assess they’ve suffered since 2012 due to sanctions.” However the representatives had little patience for many of Blinken’s arguments, with Democrat Brad Sherman saying it was “preposterous” to believe Iran would adhere to a deal.
(19) Barroso's comments provoked a furious response from senior SNP figures, who said his views were "pretty preposterous" and based on a false comparison.
(20) Taking aim at a "preposterously over-regulated system," Johnson also claims that "bureaucracy and politial correctness is gradually asphyxiating the BBC".
Sensible
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; ////// heat; sensible resistance.
(a.) Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible.
(a.) Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer.
(a.) Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.
(a.) Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.
(a.) Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.
(n.) Sensation; sensibility.
(n.) That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.
(n.) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
(2) Quantitative esophageal sensibility, therefore is concluded to be particularly suited to evaluation by electric stimulation.
(3) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(4) "Do I think it would be sensible for Liberal Democrats to bail out of a five-year plan at the very hardest point after a year?
(5) For tactile modalities, a lesion of the spinothalamic complex causes minimal or no defects and a lesion of the posterior columns causes only slight defects, whereas a lesion of both pathways gives rise to total loss of tactile and pressure sensibility in the part of the body served by both pathways.
(6) These include persisting HSVI of only the distal sensible or vegetative neurones and recurrence of infection with further destruction of ganglia-cells.
(7) Finally, any sensible person must be aware that Labour will find it impossible to govern if it attempts to ignore the national demand for a referendum.
(8) Simply lengthening the working age bracket is a potential disaster, unless the inequalities at the heart of the policy are addressed in a detailed and sensible way and we achieve full employment.
(9) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
(10) "If there is some kind of contrived scheme or vehicle, ie it's obvious that the purpose of the scheme is to avoid paying VAT and it's taking advantage of a loophole and we consider that tax is actually owed on the scheme, rather than just being a case of sensible tax planning … we can make the judgment that this is not legitimate tax planning.
(11) And he failed to engage with these sensible proposals to limit bonuses to a maximum of a year's salary or double that if explicitly backed by shareholders - proposals which even his own MEPs have backed – until the very last minute.
(12) Two sets of equations have been proposed to estimate the convective or sensible (WCV) and the evaporative or insensible (WEV) respiratory heat exchanges.
(13) You cannot hold up a picture of someone being electronically spied on; even worse, you cannot illustrate the psychic damage and cowed sensibilities that come with the fear of being spied on.
(14) I'm concerned, because it opens the door to all sorts of people with opinions that aren't sensible.
(15) More prosaically, but sensibly, the publishing division, which includes all of the company's newspaper titles, will retain the News Corp name when the company's separation occurs in July.
(16) Although there are some circumstances in which it is sensible to privatise, there are many good reasons why wholesale privatisation should be shunned .
(17) I would suggest that the effect on living standards which is so reasonably desired, and which might be expected to reduce the number of small-for-dates babies, is more likely to be accomplished by a sensible sterilization campaign rather than the potentially damaging short-term solution of termination of pregnancy in young women.
(18) Multiple immediate tendon transfers and primary nerve grafting provided for finger flexion and extension plus functional sensibility in this first reported case of an elective cross-hand microvascular transfer.
(19) Within a year, protective sensibility was restored in the replanted hand, but intrinsic muscles were paralysed.
(20) Len McCluskey, the general secretary of the Unite union, told Sky’s Murnaghan programme that it would be sensible for Corbyn to let MPs vote freely.