nonsensically

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The film exhibits no sense of how to stage a surprise, settling instead for hackish tricks like having a character nonsensically appear in, say, the middle of a deserted street as though arriving via drone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

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

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026

That sentiment was immediately undermined, however, when she waffled nonsensically, seemingly oblivious to how freedom is won in warfare.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2023

Now, this vision has been nonsensically ported into the midcentury brain of Marilyn Monroe.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2022

“You can’t do that,” I say to her nonsensically.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black