Preposterosity

“Dresses in such bad taste!” smiled Miss Marguerita—Marguerita was a model of preposterosity in fashion.

[…] as to the gentleman’s ideal of preposterosity—that this proposition is too preposterous to be considered for a moment—in more than half the States of the Union, the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is limited.

[…] if anybody had the temerity then to predict that an acre of lawn could be sown down some day at a nominal cost of as many shillings as it would then require pounds to effect, there would have been no end of opinions upon the preposterosity of the assertion, if there is such a word.

The peculiarity of Satan’s religion is its preposterosity, i. e., putting the cart before the horse.

All these obstructive oddities, I think, have developed as separate ideals because of the grand preposterosity of Professionalism that has created a world-wide cult of mutual incomprehensibility and disconnected special goals.

His latest book, “Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories” (Random House, $2.95) is an example of what [Theodor] Geisel calls his “logical preposterosity.”

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

When the microphones clustered and the red lights of the TV cameras began to glow, Faubus became a caricature of his usual, canny self—but a highly effective one as he discovered that sophisticated outlanders of the press corps, no less than red-necked voters at the branch-heads, could be diverted by sheer preposterosity.