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Sentence count:180+7Posted:2016-09-05Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: foolishimpossibleludicrousridiculousunbelievableAntonym: rationalreasonablesensibleSimilar words: hurdleabsorbabstractabstinencesureensurefor sureassureMeaning: [əb'sɜːd]  n. a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless. adj. 1. inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense 2. incongruous;inviting ridicule. 
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61. His views on motion seem to us today quite absurd.
62. I had seen shyness stiffen her into a quite absurd primness.
63. But to include call centre work in this category is absurd.
64. Now to extrapolate from this example to a general argument that familiarity of a subject is a disadvantage would clearly be absurd.
65. They condemn as absurd, lessons that teach children about homosexuality years before they can understand the meaning of the word.
66. And once you've had one treble gin it seems slightly absurd not to have another.
67. It was too absurd - the invitation, then this curt dismissal, as if I had exhausted his patience.
68. The auto accident is the most absurd of all adversary proceedings.
69. At home I made my absurd confession to Barbara, weeping at the dinner table, crying in my highball.
70. Of course it was an absurd idea, and very sensibly Rex said nothing.
71. Q: Of the many things there are to make fun of in Martha, what struck you as the most absurd?
72. Almost as if the very people who built and benefit most from the absurd complications of super.capitalism have lost faith in it.
73. You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. Aldous Huxley 
74. No one claims that advertising is the only determinant of tobacco consumption or smoking prevalence: to do so would be absurd.
75. How simple that concept seems now, but how inhuman, how futuristic, how absurd it sounded to me then.
76. I was forced to admit that put that way, it did sound rather absurd.
77. I told him how upsetting, and authoritarian, and ultimately how absurd, the whole experience had been.
78. Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurdVoltaire 
79. It was an absurd capper to the ongoing trend of expanding weather coverage.
80. At its most absurd it might mean that companies could be sued for sending letters to the wrong address.
81. On close inspection it looks more like the second touring production of Absurd Person Singular after a long spell in Pitlochry.
82. This fact merely needs stating to show how absurd the law is.
83. To describe myself as Black in a situation where most people shared my complexion was absurd.
84. Winter denies the allegation and those who know him dismiss the charge as absurd.
85. The problem began to expand to levels at once more profound and absurd.
86. It would be absurd if it were not so unlikely.http://sentencedict.com
87. In any case the idea of such a thing between me and the lieutenant is quite absurd.
88. EastEnders, once renowned for gritty realism and giant characters, is now awash with pygmies acting out absurd leftish fantasies.
89. It would, however, be absurd to complain that Blunden and Mellor chiefly admire skill in a poet.
90. Perhaps this person was a college professor who assigned absurd papers-and too many of them.
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