He had been standing tentatively, hat in hand, after escorting back Mrs. Maclaughlin and some, as it seemed to Charlotte, preposterously large bundles.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
The anarchists are accordingly more democratic in their political theory than the socialists more strictly so called, inasmuch as they would give the people more hand in the work of government, though of course they preposterously underrate the need and difficulty of that work.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Yet she was not, for he had come with this preposterously worded letter to wreck all her plans.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke