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outrageous

 adjective
     
out‧ra‧geous
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
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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