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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outrageous
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
outrageous
▪ The chairman said that Mr McNeil's views were outrageous.
outrageous (=shocking and extremely unfair )
▪ He was drunk and his accusations were becoming more and more outrageous.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ This was not quite as outrageous as it might seem at first.
▪ She'd had some requests made of her in her time but none seemingly as outrageous as this.
▪ But with an 8 litre engine, expect the petrol bills to be as outrageous as the car.
more
▪ You can get more and more outrageous if you wish.
▪ The claim that he could deliver this unheard-of conviviality for under $ 1, 000 was even more outrageous.
▪ Which of the two scenarios is more outrageous?
▪ How many more outrageous examples of excess in political fund raising and spending do they need to be called to action?
▪ But Moore is far more outrageous than her pop-culture image.
most
▪ The most outrageous concerns one of its joint authors.
▪ Yes, but you were forced to surround these scientific gifts with the most outrageous mummery.
▪ Pamela stopped, possibly the most outrageous idea she'd ever had popping fully-fledged into her head.
▪ The most outrageous examples involve force-feeding massive doses of sugar substitutes to white laboratory mice, who eventually grew tumors.
▪ It will have changed more than even the most outrageous thinking is likely to encompass.
▪ Joe was one of the most outrageous of the gamblers, not least of all in his choice of conveyance.
▪ Their most outrageous step toward re-regulation is rigging the stockmarket, which officials once disdained as a mucky casino.
so
▪ It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction.
▪ Oh, David, he's so outrageous.
▪ The idea was so outrageous it was unbelievable.
▪ The logic was so outrageous that Congress had to act.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I've always thought it outrageous that the poor have to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
▪ She accused Sloan of telling outrageous lies.
▪ The President accused the writer of an outrageous personal attack on his wife.
▪ They showed a scene from Almodovar's outrageous new movie.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I don't think Kenneth was trying to be outrageous at all.
▪ Last night Borg's lawyer said her demand was outrageous.
▪ Mansell had become the master of the unexpected, the outrageous pass.
▪ The Coen brothers make two kinds of films: big and outrageous or small and outrageous.
▪ They are also eccentric, outrageous, and, at times, totally out of control.
▪ To put a kid like Delia in eight-hour isolation for accepting a cigarette from a friend is bizarre and outrageous.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outrageous

Outrageous \Out*ra"geous\ (out*r[=a]"j[u^]s), a. [OF. outrageus, F. outrageux. See Outrage, n.] Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; such as to cause outrage; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. ``Outrageous weeping.''
--Chaucer. ``The most outrageous villainies.''
--Sir P. Sidney. ``The vile, outrageous crimes.''
--Shak. ``Outrageous panegyric.''
--Dryden.

Syn: Violent; furious; exorbitant; excessive; atrocious; monstrous; wanton; nefarious; heinous. [1913 Webster] -- Out*ra"geous*ly (out*r[=a]"j[u^]s*l[y^]), adv. -- Out*ra"geous*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outrageous

c.1300, "excessive, extravagant," from Old French outrageus, outrajos "immoderate, excessive, violent, lawless" (Modern French outrageux), from outrage, oltrage (see outrage). Meaning "flagrantly evil" is late 14c.; modern teen slang usages of it unwittingly approach the original and etymological sense of outrage. Related: Outrageously; outrageousness.

Wiktionary
outrageous

a. 1 cruel, violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront. (from 14th c.) 2 (context now rare English) fierce, violent. (from 14th c.) 3 Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate. (from 14th c.) 4 shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative. (from 18th c.)

WordNet
outrageous
  1. adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry" [syn: hideous, horrid, horrific]

  2. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usorious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending" [syn: exorbitant, extortionate, steep, unconscionable, usurious]

Wikipedia
Outrageous (Cher album)

Outrageous is the first remix album by American singer-actress Cher, released on August 1989 by PolyGram. It was released initially in North America, and released the subsequent years in some European countries.

Outrageous

Outrageous may refer to:

  • Outrageous!, a 1977 Canadian comedy film
  • Outrageous (Cher album), a 1989 remix album
  • Outrageous (song), a 2004 single by Britney Spears
  • Outrageous! (Alice in Videoland album)
  • Outrageous (Kim Fowley album)
Outrageous (Kim Fowley album)

Outrageous is the third album by American singer-songwriter Kim Fowley, released in 1968 through Imperial Records.

Outrageous (song)

"Outrageous" is a song recorded by American singer Britney Spears for her fourth studio album, In the Zone (2003). It was written and produced by R. Kelly, with vocal production provided by Trixster and Penelope Magnet. The song was released on July 20, 2004, by Jive Records, as the fourth and final single from In the Zone. "Outrageous" was the record label's choice for first and second single, but Spears pushed for " Me Against the Music" and " Toxic" respectively, to be released instead. It was finally announced as a single after it was selected as the theme song for the 2004 film Catwoman. "Outrageous" is an R&B song with influences of hip hop and an exotic feel. Lyrically, it talks about materialism and entertainment. "Outrageous" received mixed reviews from critics. Some praised its funky sound, while others deemed it as "forgettable".

"Outrageous" only charted in the United States, entering many of Billboard's component charts and peaking at number 79 on the Billboard Hot 100. Spears only performed the song once, on 2004's The Onyx Hotel Tour. The music video was being shot in New York City in June 2004, when Spears hurt her knee and had to undergo arthroscopic surgery. The video was canceled, as well as The Onyx Hotel Tour and the feature in the Catwoman soundtrack. A composite of different scenes was released in the DVD Greatest Hits: My Prerogative.

Usage examples of "outrageous".

I tell you, Don Francis, there is no more outrageous comedy, no more fantastic extravaganza playing in Venice at this hour than every moment of my own life can furnish me with.

Bruenor and Wulfgar felt ridiculous carrying their mounts, but Drizzt accepted it with a smile and Regis thoroughly enjoyed the whole outrageous spectacle, having learned on his first visit that Longsaddle was a place to be taken lightly, appreciating the idiosyncrasies and unique ways of the Harpells purely for the sake of amusement.

Tiverton had agreed that there was absolutely no chance that this Miss Mandeville led a secret life, attending orgies in outrageous costumes.

Matters have now come to such an outrageous pass that the British government can no longer ignore the fact that the colony has been goaded to desperation by the misgovernment of the ruling clique.

Nor can one fill newspapers with outrageous disclosures of human misery and expect no one to be outraged into action.

Its physical effects are outrageous compared with even the transuranic elements which carry the Solar Phoenix to the extremes far above uranium.

So far as they knew, Bertram was the only man living in whom they could confide, unbranded as outrageous liars.

But there were definite advantages of Roman rule, which no Antiochene denied, although their comic actors and the slaves who sang at private entertainments mocked the Romans and invented accusations of injustice and extortion that were even more outrageous than the truth.

Ugly suspicions and dark rumorsfed by Crush Bonbon and his outrageous, dangerous radio commentary.

He was here with the outrageous intention of talking the DA into dropping murder charges against Levon Copes right now or, failing that, deliver the message that Levon was prepared to go to trial.

His head was shaven and always capped by an outrageous wide-brimmed hat feathering the gigantic plume of a diatryma bird.

A special prosecutor in this case was outrageous, he agreed, but his hands were tied by the ethics law.

There were a couple racks of postcards, film, instant cameras, bare necessity fishing supplies at outrageous prices, Minne-tonka moccasins, rubber tomahawks for the kids, risk-kay joke gifts built around gags older than my Uncle Phil, Indian turquoise jewelry made in the Philippines.

When a merchant proposed an outrageous price for palm-fiber cord, Hati sniffed, examined it minutely, and the price came down.

Other than the hurriedness of his speech, he seemed supremely confident that she would agree to his outrageous proposal.