Synonyms:
hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous
Meaning: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
Usage examples
What do you mean by this outrageous conduct?
The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.
"And yet you said that outrageous thing about my reading about nothing but murders!" I said.
Not physically--at least not often--and women take the most outrageous kinds of flattery for granted.
You will allow me to say, general, that you have behaved in a most outrageous manner in approaching my guest with such foul proposals.
"You must admit, however," said the Bibliomaniac, "that a man with an honorable name must find it unpleasant to have such outrageous stories told of him."
"The manhandling of the women by the police was outrageous and the entire trial (before a judge of your own appointment) was a perversion of justice," I said.
Onward they sped, and Duke was encouraged by the sight and sound of these reinforcements to increase his own outrageous clamours and to press home his attack.
Under the outrageous treatment of the white peoples an idea of unifying the "Yellow" peoples is pretty certain to become audibly and visibly operative before many years.
I know positively that Mrs. Clark, after swearing that she wouldn't weaken and encourage them in their outrageous demands, went and paid five-fifty--think of it! practically a dollar a day for unskilled work and, of course, her food and room and a chance to do her own washing right in with the rest of the wash.
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