Example sentences for: absurdly

How can you use “absurdly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The harsh response to Rorty may have something to do with his penchant for gratuitous, con-baiting asides, such as the one in which he absurdly states that "we caused the death of a million Vietnamese out of sheer macho arrogance."

  • The LAT is the only one of the papers to front Microsoft President Steve Ballmer's comments yesterday that U.S. tech stocks are absurdly overpriced, which prompted large sell-offs at Nasdaq and the NYSE.

  • If one accepts (as one must, increasingly) the portrait of JFK as almost absurdly careless, how does one explain his mastery of the televised press conference?

  • About thirty years ago, when I was concocting an epicurean dish and saw that I had no sherry on hand, I went to the liquor store and bought a bottle of muscatel that was being sold for an absurdly low price and that I thought might be exactly right for my sauce.

  • On a deeper level, though, it's hard to tell whether Altman means to communicate, "Hey, I'm just the pimp, I don't turn the tricks," or whether he's casting himself, absurdly, as some magnificently disinterested Sulzberger- or Graham-esque figure who refuses to compromise editorial integrity.


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