Example sentences for: absurdly

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

  • You can be stuck on for anything from serious misconduct to minor infringements of the police's absurdly draconian and catch-all disciplinary codes, which make it possible for a senior officer with a grudge against a junior to stick him on for almost anything.

  • Humor is defined in the OED as that quality of action, speech, or writing which excites amusement and in MWIII as that expression of ideas in a happening, an action, a situation, or an expression of ideas which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous.

  • At $500,000 a year, Met General Manager Joseph Volpe is well paid, but not absurdly so, for someone who runs a $150 million-a-year business and has to deal with malingering divas instead of deferential corporate vice presidents.

  • Each Ickes kept absurdly copious notes, and was doggedly loyal to his boss.

  • 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.


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