He had been at sea, of course; there was no denying that fact, for he knew ships, and spoke the lingo of blue water; but the very idea that that blood-stained buccaneer, whose hated name was on the lips of every sea-faring man of Britain, would ever dare openly to visit England, and then sail under his own name on board an English vessel for Virginia, was too preposterous for consideration.

The scheme sounded preposterous in outline, but she demonstrated its practicability in performance.

That was natural; but to have a petticoated young person infesting your house, hourly, was as preposterous as ice-cream soda at breakfast.

And in point of fact, coldly reviewed in dispassionate daylight, the thing seemed preposterous to him, to be asked to believe that Popinot had contrived to secrete himself beyond finding on board the Sybarite.

From a dramatic point of view the dénoûment is even more preposterous than usual.

I found it very preposterous on Narayan's part to bring the heavy volume to the meeting.

As it is, there it stands at all our street-corners, disguising one of the most beautiful of ideas under one of the most preposterous of forms.