OUTRAGEOUS in a Sentence
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97 example sentences for OUTRAGEOUS, such as:
1. She behaved in the most outrageous way.
2. A more outrageous person I never did see.
3. The response to the jury's verdict was one of outrage.
4. When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.
5. And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune.
2. A more outrageous person I never did see.
3. The response to the jury's verdict was one of outrage.
4. When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.
5. And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune.
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Meanings and Examples of OUTRAGEOUS
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outrageous
a. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
a. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1 Anybody could, with lumber selling at such outrageous prices.
2 Rhett always sided with the child, no matter how foolish her desires or how outrageous her behavior.
3 He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.
4 Marija was working for one of the independent packers, and was quite beside herself and outrageous with triumph over the sums of money she was making as a painter of cans.
5 The outrageous treatment of poor Tom had roused her still more; and she had followed Legree to the house, with no particular intention, but to upbraid him for his brutality.
6 And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune.
7 So he glided along, and the powwow and racket getting more and more outrageous all the time; and at last, when he had gone around two sides of the room, he disappears down cellar.
8 It was outrageous, and I knowed I ought to just up and tell him so; and so be his true friend, and let him quit the thing right where he was and save himself.
9 And Herbert had seen him as a predatory Tartar of comic propensities, with a face like a red brick, and an outrageous hat all over bells.
10 A more outrageous person I never did see.
11 The whites, of course greatly discomposed, had besides a curious look of being painfully shocked by such an outrageous row.
12 She behaved in the most outrageous way.
13 When he saw Eumaeus and Ulysses he reviled them with outrageous and unseemly language, which made Ulysses very angry.
14 To keep in power he's been desperately manufacturing Klan outrage stories where none exist, telling of loyal Republicans being hung up by the thumbs and honest darkies lynched for rape.
15 Because you ARE; that's why; and your being in a place like this is a damnable outrage.
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1 The main focus of interest at the fashion show was Christian Lacroix's outrageous evening wear.
2 Charges for local telephone calls are particularly outrageous.
3 It is outrageous that the figures are not in the public domain.
4 Newspapers publish these outrageous stories because they know what their public wants.
5 At least President Obama finally sent an envoy to Europe yesterday to explore joint action to stop outrageous violence against protesters.
6 British newspapers were full of moral outrage at the weakness of other countries.
7 When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.
8 The whole affair is an outrage and the authorities have done nothing to prevent it.
9 The response to the jury's verdict was one of outrage.
10 The suggestion inevitably provoked outrage from student leaders.
11 WHO said that court action needed to be handled cautiously, discipline and litigation could awaken public outrage, and advance both justice and health.
12 Breaking the silence and expressing our outrage is the only way to even begin to make a change.
13 And so, under pretence of softening the previous outrage, of stroking and soothing me into placidity, you stick a sly penknife under my ear!
14 The incompetence and lazy of his students outrage him very much.
15 There is outrage in Indigenous communities over the recent acquittal of a Saskatchewan farmer of all charges relating to the shooting death of young Colten Boushie.