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/ˌɒs.tɹəʊˈbɒɡ.jʊ.ləs/ · adjective
(humorous) Slightly risqué or indecent; bizarre, interesting, or unusual..
"The Beast and the Devil tried to hold a serious business conversation, but Vickybird kept chipping in with questions of a purely 'ostrobogulous'* nature until Crowley became so enraged that he turned Vickybird into a zebra, rode him into a zoo, where he remained for two years before regaining human shape."
A tissue of ostrobogulous lies, he calls them.
He would speak of an ostrobogulous tale or a passage in the classics.
Use ostrobogulous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ostrobogulous means (humorous) Slightly risqué or indecent; bizarre, interesting, or unusual..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"The Beast and the Devil tried to hold a serious business conversation, but Vickybird kept chipping in with questions of a purely 'ostrobogulous'* nature until Crowley became so enraged that he turned Vickybird into a zebra, rode him into a zoo, where he remained for two years before regaining human shape."
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