adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
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And price / earnings ratios that seem absurdly high probably are.
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The great strain for married couples in modernity is the absurdly high expectation of the marriage bond.
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But the Tories will continue to crucify manufacturing industry, in pursuit of an absurdly high parity in the Exchange Rate Mechanism.
low
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The only offers Gloria received were absurdly low , and she rejected them indignantly.
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In those days, even the highest cutting speeds were almost absurdly low .
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The government sets the local price of petrol absurdly low while imposing taxes of over 80% on the company's revenues.
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When I say his demand for a raise is absurd, I mean absurdly low .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Breaking the law, i. e., firing people, is absurdly cheap.
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In those days, even the highest cutting speeds were almost absurdly low.
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It is the absurdly pompous Pons who ostensibly pieces together the scattered evidence of Urim's past.
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The experience is unsettling, as if voyeuristic, and also uncanny, like a brief time travel, and absurdly pleasing.
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The people back then had been so absurdly vulnerable, prey to disease and deception.
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To begin with, the actual battlefield seemed so absurdly small.
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Words bubbled in Jay's mind with an absurdly happy smile.
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Zampano is trying on his new clothes, absurdly self-involved in his new-found pinstriped elegance.