preposterously
adverb
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Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈpɒstɹəsli/ / /pɹɪˈpɒstəɹəsli/ / /pɹə-/
adv
Etymology: Etymology tree English preposterous Middle English -ly English -ly English preposterously From preposterous + -ly.
- In a preposterous manner.
“Some, however, have preposterously sisted nature as the first or generative principle.”
“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[…]”