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Example sentences for "outrageous"

Lexicographically close words:
outpourings; output; outputs; outrage; outraged; outrageously; outrages; outraging; outragious; outragiously
  1. I never heard anything so monstrous--such an outrageous piece of impertinence in my life.

  2. Imagine my mortification when he informed me that his steward had been dragged off to jail early in the morning, and that those two ruffians whom you disgrace the community with, behaved in the most outrageous manner.

  3. Enraged at such outrageous conduct, the poor fellow could stand it no longer, and fetched him a blow that levelled him upon the floor.

  4. It contained no slightest trace of the outrageous salacity and sottishness which disfigure the great majority of successful musical comedies.

  5. And yet you never encountered a person who, questioned singly, did not agree and even assert of his own accord that music at meals is an outrageous nuisance!

  6. If it is not the letter, it is the spirit,' said Charles, vexed at the interference with his sport of amazing the Miss Harpers with outrageous stories of Mrs. Brownlow.

  7. Haugwitz arrived on February 1st with fresh proposals from the King of Prussia, who had refused to ratify his outrageous treaty of Schoenbrunn until peace was concluded with England.

  8. In that year were published, in the Revue des Deux Mondes, George Sand's outrageous Lettres d'un voyageur.

  9. There may be discerned the dawn of fencing proper, which will fully arise when, in Caroline times, the outrageous length of the tucke will at last be sufficiently reduced no longer to require the dagger as a helpmate.

  10. Besides, they were in no hurry to work for the benefit of a dirty wench who was overwhelming them all with her four white horses, her postilions and her outrageous assumption of side.

  11. Soon she grew bolder and asked him for loans of two hundred francs, three hundred francs--never more than that--wherewith to pay the interest of bills or to stave off outrageous debts.

  12. Loud bursts of merriment greeted Mars, who wore an outrageous uniform, suggestive of an Alpine admiral.

  13. But La Faloise was again seized with contempt for his country and grew positively outrageous in his applause of Spirit.

  14. I began to think (seeing her ladyship so outrageous with her brother) what a happy escape I had had the day before, though hardly enough used in conscience too, as I thought.

  15. Then was he outrageous against poor Parson Williams!

  16. One of the French prisoners became so outrageous that it was found necessary to lash him to the bottom of the boat.

  17. Bishop Burnet says: "That he (Peters) had been outrageous in pressing the King's death with the cruelty and rudeness of an inquisitor.

  18. Some day you'll go too far in saying outrageous things to me.

  19. At the time she had laughed, as she would have laughed at any outrageous piece of cynicism in some modern play.

  20. It frankly appeared to her the most outrageous thing to have done.

  21. His charges were so atrocious as to half defeat their own purpose, the more intelligent at once rejecting them for what they were--outrageous fabrications.

  22. The licentiousness of the press makes us as savage as our Saxon ancestors, who could only set their marks; and an outrageous pursuit of individual independence, grounded on selfish views, extinguishes genius as much as despotism does.

  23. The outrageous applause it has received ,it Paris was certainly Political, and intended to stir up their spirit and animosity against us, their good, merciful, and forgiving allies.

  24. Personalities and abuse, public and private, increase to the most outrageous degree, and yet the town is at the emptiest.

  25. They were confirmed in their dangerous and disquieting opinion by the outrageous claims of the emigrants, and the declamations of the priests.

  26. A small number of the most outrageous fired on the company of M.

  27. Who could possibly have guessed from the boy's demeanour when his Aunt Clara mentioned Bert to him, that he had made an outrageous rendezvous with Bert that very night?

  28. No woman had ever made such outrageous remarks in the Five Towns before.

  29. He was now shocked as much by the girl's outrageous candour as by the indisputable revelation that she went hungry for praise.

  30. It seemed such an ignoble, such a dastardly, outrageous thing, that death could come to them from unseen hands, for as yet they had not seen a soul.

  31. And never was a garden so drunk with colour as is ours to-day; never have I seen so outrageous a riot.

  32. An hour afterwards Luigi, defrauded of half his holiday afternoon, returned to the gaiety and companionship of the Piazza, and recounted to an indignant audience this outrageous affair.

  33. Armenians," he added with half-closed eyes, suddenly suggesting that masked meekness that disguises most outrageous racial pride.

  34. I remedied the first outrageous error to a slight extent by killing the Turkish colonel's orderly, missing the commander himself by almost a yard.

  35. Kercadiou's outrageous rearing had made her headstrong.

  36. Similarly now, it is not to be believed that in coming straight from the Bois de Boulogne, straight from the killing of a man, he should be sincerely expressing his nature in alluding to the fact in terms of such outrageous flippancy.

  37. That," said madame with complete conviction, "is the last and most outrageous of his errors.

  38. Did you think to make your outrageous offence any better by vanishing in that heartless manner, by leaving us without knowledge of whether you were alive or dead?

  39. Thomas Jefferson's democracy rebelled at this and he freed the whole world from the outrageous custom.

  40. The public would find immense relief in the general adoption of the foregoing idea--that tipping must "be yielding to a genuine desire--not conforming to an outrageous custom.

  41. It's outrageous how you spoilt that young Rehnhjelm in so short a time.

  42. This outrageous fallacy seemed perfectly to answer its purpose, and Sybil accepted it, in good faith, as a fair working principle which explained itself.

  43. She's not to hold or bind when she takes the notion, and the dear knows what she's been up to now; something outrageous most likely.

  44. There was no end to the outrageous civilities of M.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outrageous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandoned; abominable; absurd; abusive; acute; arrant; atrocious; awful; backhanded; base; beastly; bizarre; black; blameworthy; boundless; brutal; camp; cheap; contemptible; contumelious; crazy; cruel; curious; cutthroat; cutting; damnable; degrading; demeaning; deplorable; despicable; detestable; dire; disgraceful; disgusting; dishonorable; drastic; dreadful; egregious; enormous; exacting; exaggerated; excessive; exorbitant; extortionate; extravagant; extreme; fabulous; fancy; fantastic; fantastical; farcical; fetid; fiendish; fierce; filthy; flagrant; foolish; foul; fulsome; furious; gigantic; glaring; gluttonous; gouge; great; grievous; gross; grotesque; gutter; hateful; heinous; hideous; high; horrible; horrid; humiliating; immoderate; impossible; incontinent; incredible; indecent; infamous; inflationary; inordinate; insolent; insulting; intemperate; intense; keen; lamentable; laughable; loathsome; lousy; ludicrous; monstrous; nasty; nefarious; noisome; nonsensical; notorious; obnoxious; obscene; odious; offensive; outlandish; outrageous; outre; overgrown; overmuch; overweening; piercing; pitiful; preposterous; presumptuous; prohibitive; provocative; rank; regrettable; reprehensible; repulsive; ridiculous; rigorous; rotten; rough; rude; sad; scandalous; scurrilous; scurvy; severe; shabby; shameful; shameless; sharp; shocking; shoddy; sight; sordid; sorry; spicy; spiraling; splitting; squalid; steep; stiff; tall; terrible; tough; unbecoming; unbridled; unclean; unconscionable; undeserved; undue; unearthly; ungodly; unmerited; unreasonable; unrestrained; unspeakable; unwarranted; unworthy; usurious; vehement; venomous; vile; villainous; violent; virulent; weird; wild; woeful; worst; worthless; wretched