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单词 outrageous
释义
outrageous
(aʊtrdʒəs )
adjective B2
If you describe something as outrageous, you are emphasizing that it is unacceptable or very shocking. [emphasis]
I must apologise for my outrageous behaviour.
Charges for local phone calls are particularly outrageous.
Synonyms: atrocious, shocking, terrible, violent  
outrageously adverb [usually ADVERB adjective]
Car-parks are few, crammed, and outrageously expensive.
She flirted with him outrageously at times.
Collocations:
outrageous clothes
In turn, social media has magnified his power, he says, creating a real hunger for outrageous clothes that shout.
Times, Sunday Times
He comes in wearing some outrageous clothes.
The Sun
Wearing outrageous clothes was very liberating.
The Sun
It was characterized by outrageous clothes, makeup, hairstyles, and platform-soled boots.
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outrageous demands
Being modest types, their gig 'rider' contains no outrageous demands.
Times, Sunday Times
His world collapses on nights like this because top-class bosses make outrageous demands of their players.
The Sun
A magazine editor's unforgiving personality and outrageous demands make her trainee assistant's life a nightmare.
The Sun
At the very least, they made outrageous demands from concert venues.
Times, Sunday Times
The music itself requires much of us: endless uncomfortable hours in the opera house, with outrageous demands upon not only time but concentration.
Times, Sunday Times
outrageous price
These outrageous price hikes have happened before tickets for the big match have even gone on sale.
The Sun
Five-star luxury without the outrageous price tag - our cabins are amongst the largest and most luxuriously appointed, with everything you'd expect from a luxury boutique hotel.
Times, Sunday Times
The cabbie also often takes the passenger somewhere other than requested and then demands an outrageous price.
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And at the turn of the century, outrageous prices of more than 1,000 (about 100,000 today) were recorded for a single specimen.
Times, Sunday Times
If he gets outrageous prices, he won't last long - he'll chase buyers away.
ST
outrageous statement
And, scarily, no one said that it was a ridiculous claim, an outrageous statement.
Times, Sunday Times
It was an outrageous statement.
Times, Sunday Times
There were none of the outrageous statements that, in the past, have made him one of football's more colourful but less attractive characters.
The Sun
Weird behaviour and outrageous statements help, too, of course.
Times, Sunday Times
He has rejected some of his more outrageous statements.
Times, Sunday Times
outrageous suggestion
She sits erect on a banquette against the wall, contemplating this outrageous suggestion.
Times, Sunday Times
That would be an outrageous suggestion.
Times, Sunday Times
Of course, she denies such an outrageous suggestion, but she can't prevent herself twinkling with delight at the thought of having got one over a tabloid editor.
Times, Sunday Times
But she insisted there was no evidence for the 'outrageous suggestion' that lenders had bought peerages.
The Sun
His flippant delivery and outrageous suggestions while answering phones are indicative that he was nothing but a fraud.
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Translations:
Chinese: 蛮横的
Japanese: とんでもない
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