absurd

Example Sentences

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The story is completely absurd, filled with plot holes and characters as thin as a prima ballerina.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

One of them, lawyer Seydou Diagne, called the decision to strip Senegal of their title "so blatant, so absurd, so irrational".

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

I’ve been privy to someone’s absurd envy over a rival’s bigger jet and heard people running huge enterprises speak of wanting to start another one at 70.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

The “Chuck Norris facts” phenomenon — a stream of absurd one-liners casting him as an invincible force of nature — helped turn the actor into a meme sensation before memes were a business.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

We were having an absurd and inappropriate argument because in the wake of death every single thing on earth feels absurd and inappropriate.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama