Example sentences for: absurdly

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

  • Consider the absurdly anachronistic flower-power band that visited its old buddy, Dad, in last night's episode, for instance, and how afraid he was that they'd bring marijuana into his home.

  • 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.

  • An absurdly inefficient system of protected markets and money-losing public corporations has been liberalized and privatized, producing a fair bit of unemployment but a huge surge in productivity.

  • In every account of his POW ordeal, he absurdly concludes that he "failed" to withstand the enemy's torture.

  • In Election , he has his first fully rounded grown-up role, and he's perfect: He makes the teacher's anguish absurdly funny without caricaturing the pain.


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