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outrageous English

Meaning outrageous meaning

What does outrageous mean?

outrageous

(= hideous, horrific) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror subjected to outrageous cruelty a hideous pattern of injustice horrific conditions in the mining industry (= exorbitant, extortionate, unconscionable, usurious) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation exorbitant rent extortionate prices spends an outrageous amount on entertainment usurious interest rate unconscionable spending

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Simple sentences

These prices are outrageous!
Politicians are always censured for outrageous or inappropriate behavior.
Tom is outrageous.
That sounds outrageous.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
This is outrageous.
This is outrageous!
That's outrageous.
This is just outrageous.

Movie subtitles

It's outrageous.
Outrageous.
I find it outrageous that the King is settling affairs of state while in the pleasure quarters of his Mistress.
That's outrageous.
Outrageous!
Gentlemen of the jury, it is outrageous, traitorous to deprive the army of confidence in its chiefs in the day of danger!
This is outrageous.
I never heard of anything so outrageous in my life.
You've done a stupid outrageous thing.
On the charge of outrageous acts against the government and my own person, I've decided to call you, gentlemen, in special assembly chaired solely by myself.
Why, why, why, this is outrageous!
Why, thi- - This is outrageous!
You mean that outrageous individual.
This is outrageous!
Positively outrageous.
This is outrageous, bringing us to a place like this.
That girl's a complete mystery to me, outrageous.
It would be outrageous, you can't disturb the master at this time.
Why, that's outrageous!
Really. outrageous!
It's outrageous of her.
Pres was outrageous. He'd no right to tell me what I could ride and couldn't.
It's just outrageous!
How outrageous!
Would Allah and Emir tolerate such an outrageous violation of the order.
As to this outrageous accusation, I shall refute it!
I think it's outrageous.
You want an outrageous price.
My expense account is beginning to look outrageous.
Be gay extravagant, outrageous.
Believe it or not I have a better time with this outrageous brat than anybody in Paris.
It's simply outrageous!

News and current affairs

Developing nations are grasping just how outrageous the current distribution of greenhouse-gas emissions really is.
But sport can also become a kind of gigantic, distracting screen behind which nasty regimes do outrageous things - the very opposite of the Olympic and World Cup spirit.
Silvio Berlusconi, another real-estate billionaire, who began his career as a crooner on a cruise ship, was even more outrageous than Trump, as well as a master of the mass media - literally so, as he owned most of it in his country.
Moreover, it looks likely that the outrageous fees charged for every debit transaction - a kind of tax that goes not for any public purpose but to fill the banks' coffers - will be curtailed.
The past 12 months have seen some of the most outrageous North Korean behavior in decades.
Many people consider it outrageous, even blasphemous, to deny the divine origin of morality.
And inequality has reached outrageous levels, preventing society from uniting behind essential reforms.
Arab Spring governments condemned the outrageous movie smearing the Prophet of Islam, but they should have stressed that American official and unofficial bodies had nothing to do with the film's production.
The Israeli government may have seized on the outrageous murders as a pretext for provoking Hamas into a response that would allow Israel, in turn, to invade and destroy the tunnels Hamas has dug from Gaza into Israel.
At the time, the Dow Jones industrial average of US stocks was trading at around 11,000, so the book's premise seemed outrageous.
James Surowiecki's bestselling 2004 book, with the outrageous title The Wisdom of Crowds, pressed this idea forward at the very height of the real estate boom.
The fact that questioning the practices of rich nations (who contribute more funds) exercising more voting power in these organizations sounds outrageous, shows how far away we remain from global democracy.
After all, it does not seem outrageous that Bill Gates does not have multiple votes in the US elections on the ground that he contributes more to government coffers.
Indeed, the suggestion that Gates should have more votes sounds outrageous.
But Italian society has changed: most women are now working, and they are no longer willing to accept Belusconi's anachronistic and outrageous chauvinism.
In a way, Santorum's canards must come as a relief to a country that has increasingly been in the news for outrageous statements by right-wing populists about Muslims and Greeks.
This was obviously an outrageous threat against a country that has no intention of attacking Russia.
After all, it does not seem outrageous that Bill Gates does not have multiple votes in the US elections on the ground that he contributes more to government coffers. Indeed, the suggestion that Gates should have more votes sounds outrageous.
Because President Alexander Lukashenka's behavior is so outrageous, a change of regime becomes possible.
Many people consider it outrageous, even blasphemous, to deny the divine origin of morality. Either some divine being crafted our moral sense, or we picked it up from the teachings of organized religion.
It would be an outrageous violation of our humanitarian instincts and feelings of compassion.
But we quickly become desensitized, requiring ever more outrageous scenarios to move us.

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