preposterously
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/pɹɪˈpɒstɹəsli/
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/pɹɪˈpɒstəɹəsli/
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/pɹəˈpɑstɹəsli/
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/pɹəˈpɑstəɹəsli/
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pɹɪˈpɒstɹəsli
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pɹəˈpɑstɹəsli
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Avverbio
In a preposterous manner.
- Esempi
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Some, however, have preposterously sisted nature as the first or generative principle.
Altri esempi (1)
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[…]
Avverbio
so as to arouse or deserve laughter
- Sinonimi
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her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well
Forme della parola
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