inconceivably
English
[edit]Etymology
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From inconceivable + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]inconceivably (comparative more inconceivably, superlative most inconceivably)
- In an inconceivable manner, in a way not believable or understandable.
- 1872, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Irish Sketch-book, volume 2, page 160:
- Parents are at the cabin doors, dressing the hair of ragged children; shock-heads of girls peer out from the black circumference of smoke, and children inconceivably filthy, yell wildly and vociferously as the coach passes by.
- 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill:
- Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]
Translations
[edit]in an inconceivable manner
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