preposterously
advUK /pɹɪˈpɒstɹəsli/ · US /pɹəˈpɑstɹəsli/
Etymology From preposterous + -ly.
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In a preposterous manner.
- Some, however, have preposterously sisted nature as the first or generative principle.1852, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform:
- The opening sections of Martin’s biography are clogged with genealogical chronicles of the Garcías (the father’s family) and the Márquezes (the mother’s), snaking into the 19th century — a preposterously tangled story of cousins and noncousins united in wedlock, nonwedlock, near-incest, vendetta-mania and frontier trailblazing in the Colombian wilds[…]2009 June 7, Paul Berman, “Telling the Tale”, in The New York Times: