nonsensically

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"Someone came up to me speaking nonsensically, I didn't understand what he was saying," he said.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026

“Negative impacts might be more severe in the absence of efforts to adapt,” the report is reduced to nonsensically arguing, as if adaptation is not the definition of being alive for humans and other creatures.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

And there were the classic “Star Trek” tropes, like Jean-Luc nonsensically going to the Borg cube, when he was likely the least physically capable of the old crew in fighting off the Borg.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023

I want to skip ahead for a second, because against everything I experienced previously while watching Hallmark's nonsensically titled holiday movie "Hanukkah on Rye," I cried at the end.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2022

Charles took a swallow of his drink and ran up another octave, trilling nonsensically on the keys with his right hand.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt