improbably

improbable +‎ -ly

improbably (comparative more improbably, superlative most improbably)

1. In an improbable manner; without probability.
   • 2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur‎, University of California Press, page 68:

     […] and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three seperate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.

• probably

• improbably in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.