ludicrous
Example Sentences
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But it’s ludicrous that the country’s ace legal reporters never provided the public even an inkling of these legal defects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“It’s completely ludicrous that anyone could support that,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
But some are prone to ludicrous circumlocutions like “Johnny faces challenges in the lived experience of interactions with his peer group in educational spaces,” instead of “Johnny doesn’t get along with his classmates.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Team Burnham, for their part, dismissed this idea of delay as "absolutely ludicrous".
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
There was a humorless irony in the ludicrous panic of the man screaming for help to the police while policemen were all around him.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing ludicrous
A Raisin in the Sun
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The Hunger Games
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