outrageousadjective
uk/ˌaʊtˈreɪ.dʒəs/us/ˌaʊtˈreɪ.dʒəs/B2 shocking and morally unacceptable:
The judge criticized the "outrageous greed" of some of the bankers.
[ + that ] It is outrageous that these buildings remain empty while thousands of people have no homes.
These prices are just outrageous (= much too high).
used to describe something or someone that is shocking because they are unusual or strange:
outrageous clothes/behaviour
an outrageous character
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Morally wrong and evil
- abhorrent
- amoral
- anomie
- arch-villain
- be rotten to the core idiom
- canker
- darkly
- evil
- evildoer
- go to the bad idiom
- godless
- hanky-panky
- heinous
- immoral
- seamy
- seedy
- shocking
- shockingly
- sinful
- wickedness
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Strange, suspicious and unnatural
outrageously
adverb uk/ˌaʊtˈreɪ.dʒəs.li/us/ˌaʊtˈreɪ.dʒəs.li/
outrageously high prices