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out‧ra‧geous/aʊtˈreɪdʒəs/ adjective
1. very shocking and extremely unfair or offensive:
　 ▪ outrageous prices
　 ▪ an outrageous attack on his policies
it is outrageous (that)
　 ▪ It’s outrageous that the poor should pay such high taxes.

2. extremely unusual and slightly amusing or shocking:
　 ▪ an outrageous hairstyle
　 ▪ He says the most outrageous things.

—outrageously adverb

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.