Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an incomprehensible manner; to an extent or a degree which is incomprehensible.
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- adverb In an
incomprehensible manner.
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Examples
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Fully clothed, a man whose feet and hands were securely bound, lay muttering upon the bed, his jargon incomprehensibly foreign.
Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple
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One character was described as "incomprehensibly" being not very interested in the "big bad thing" the aliens did to the humans 10K years ago.
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For once the world was given an entertainer whose talent actually matched, if not exceeded his celebrity — and his celebrity was titanic, incomprehensibly gigantic.
This week's cover: An exclusive first look at the new Michael Jackson movie | EW.com 2009
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Barnabas stuffed a handful of seedless grapes in his mouth and muttered almost incomprehensibly, “These guys are the best!”
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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"Ignore the fact that rapture is a part of life, that reality is sometimes just incomprehensibly weird;" Rapture is a feeling, and obviously part of a character's internal life.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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Yes the streak of your daily incomprehensibly STUPID posts continues.
Think Progress » ACLU will sue high school that canceled prom to stop lesbians from attending. 2010
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Contradt that to conservatives who are now announcing that they intend to try to use the courts to skrew over Americans on health care since they could no longer maintain the incomprehensibly bad status quo through the legislature.
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Second of all, speaking of small objects with tenuous attachments, people are perfectly willing to let their brains accept the idea of other planets, but only on one condition: That no matter how incomprehensibly far away they are, we can pretend that they offer us a way to escape our wanton destruction of the one planet all of us actually live on.
Sequel Tom Toles 2011
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The GOP's sheep follow not realizing they themselves are moving to the right of where they used to be ... all the while thinking they haven't moved ... that the world went suddenly and incomprehensibly leftist on them.
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As the technicians began to examine the material in more detail, they could see a jumble of almost incomprehensibly complicated engineering schematics in various forms and formats, extensive financial records dating back to the 1970s, correspondence between members of the network, and, from one of the computers, a large collection of pornographic photographs.
Fallout Catherine Collins 2011
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