| 3H6 V.vi.5 | [King to Richard] 'Good Gloucester' and 'good devil' were alike, / And both preposterous |
| Oth I.iii.326 | [Iago to Roderigo] the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions |
| R3 II.iv.63 | [Duchess of York to all] O preposterous / And frantic outrage, end thy damned spleen |
| TC V.i.20 | [Thersites to Patroclus] the rotten diseases of the south ... take and take again such preposterous discoveries! |
| TS III.i.9 | [Lucentio as Cambio to and of Hortensio as Licio] Preposterous ass |