preposterously
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Adverb
In a preposterous manner.
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Some, however, have preposterously sisted nature as the first or generative principle.
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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[…]
Adverb
so as to arouse or deserve laughter
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her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well
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