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Meanings of absurd in inglés
portugués
absurdo Incongruous; inviting ridicule.
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Examples for "ridiculous"
Examples for "ridiculous"
1
No, not ridiculous; only a simple idea, and great in its simplicity.
2
The mountains are in labor, a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.
3
We eternally step from the sublime to the ridiculous; we want taste.
4
His idealism had made him ridiculous in the eyes of the townsfolk.
5
The scene was interrupted in an unexpected and ridiculous manner-thetelephone rang.
1
MURRAY: The thought of that happening in my family was completely ludicrous.
2
Alas nowadays health and safety and ludicrous red tape has hampered stuntsters.
3
Some great saves, some ludicrous decisions coming off his line as well.
4
It might seem ludicrous but football is an impatient business these days.
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The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself.
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Simply, as she thought that preposterous idea, it began to take shape.
2
Or perhaps I never really believed that the preposterous toy would work.
3
But, in recent years, the documentary competition has been almost as preposterous.
4
To a gringo such a thing sounds preposterous, impossible, am I right?
5
No idea was too preposterous; and not one of them bore fruit.
1
There's a great deal more of this idiotic list-making still to come.
2
There's a YouTube video already, of course, and the inevitable idiotic comments.
3
For example, check out this idiotic exchange on the blog The Intersection.
4
I lose it in the vulgarest way-andsay the most idiotic things.
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I say idiotic because, already, science can replicate meat using plant-based proteins.
1
He finds laughable the idea that political freedom is a Western construct.
2
That is the laughable idea the Turnbull government would have you believe.
3
Claude seemed barely real to me: a paper clown, innocuous and laughable.
4
North Korea has dismissed the offer of multilateral security guarantees as laughable.
5
He could see nothing laughable about the desperate situation in the district.
1
A moment later, Sam heard Tricia's whispered voice, crooning sympathetic, nonsensical words.
2
They take place in a constant, denatured present and are often nonsensical.
3
The failings were unacceptable and the lack of testing nonsensical, she said.
4
Text from both the original and wannabe software often makes nonsensical leaps.
5
It was a nonsensical plan, like millions of others made that day.
1
Those bids were immediately rejected out of hand as derisory and insulting.
2
All they offered was a derisory non-naming rights option as an alternative.
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That derisory fee doesn't cut any mustard with old Steve Coppell though.
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He's taken the derisory offer in order to build up his work experience.
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The article says, for instance Sinn Fein might well receive a derisory vote.
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His ex-wife espoused a cockeyed fiscal philosophy that made very expensive sense.
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His cockeyed version of the Story of our Country for one thing.
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In the end he left the post standing cockeyed in the stream.
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We'll put it this way, to start: Something cockeyed is going on.
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Graphic: China's GDP: slower and more slippery Real growth rates are similarly cockeyed.
Usage of absurd in inglés
1
Looked at from our point of view the problems were quite absurd.
2
This approach and the list of functions was of course completely absurd.
3
The position of Germany, the euro zone's main lender, is increasingly absurd.
4
Of course Martin had been broken; it was absurd to think otherwise.
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Perhaps the situation was just too absurd for him to take seriously.
6
Of course such thinking is absurd, but it happens all the time.
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Barnett has a great way of mixing understatement with completely absurd situations.
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Even five years ago the idea would have been dismissed as absurd.
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Wired: Gervais takes tack-sharp aim at all things absurd -including himself.
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I don't understand how you're asked to believe things that are absurd.
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You need not fear though, Two. But, of course, this was absurd.
12
This means Labour should be backing absurd schemes like free schools, presumably.
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Don't be absurd-I'dnever let myself be seen with him in public.
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It's an almost absurd contrast from where we were a year go.
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The idea may seem absurd, yet it is rooted in sound science.
16
Molly, I want you to give up this absurd idea right now.
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