adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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As a theory, it strikes me as ludicrous .
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His engineers soon realized that this was almost as ludicrous .
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It was the photographer from the Telegraph who provided one of the most ludicrous moments.
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The most ludicrous post-mortem appeared last Thursday, September 18, on the editorial page of an almost-daily afternoon paper.
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That is the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard.
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But the most ludicrous proposal of all concerns reapportionment.
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Of the many drawbacks the most ludicrous is that applications can be made only once a year at a certain time.
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If it weren't so ludicrous , it would be laughable!
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This is so ludicrous it is laughable in modern times.
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I understand that, because the proposals were so ludicrous , there was no rationale to justify them.
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Why should Willi always make himself look so ludicrous so that people laughed at him?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She wears short skirts and dyes her hair pink, which looks ludicrous on a woman her age.
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The telephone lines are only open during office hours, which is ludicrous in this day and age.
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They want two million dollars for the house? That's ludicrous !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And as he talked, I thought how ludicrous life sometimes was.
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It is difficult to know whether this is more ludicrous or tragic.
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It was a ludicrous but terrifying sight.
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Since I mentioned this ludicrous example of time-wasting to Julia MacKenzie, she has phoned roughly twice a day.
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The Press interest in this affair seems likely to reach ludicrous heights with the Grand Prix tomorrow.
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This sort of thing was bad enough at eighteen, she thought; at my age it is ludicrous and humiliating.
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Yet it is equally ludicrous for a city to ask its taxpayers to subsidize a private good such as golf.