preposterously

Adverb

preposterously (comparative more preposterously, superlative most preposterously)

1. 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...2009 June 7, Paul Berman, “Telling the Tale”, in The New York Times