Sentence examples for Absurd from inspiring English sources

The word 'Absurd' is correct and commonly used in written English
It means wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate. Example: The idea that the moon is made of cheese is absurd and has been disproven by scientific evidence.

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Absurd

adjective

Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly.

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That would be absurd.

That is absurd.

"It is absurd".

It's absurd".

Don't they know how absurd and unedifying it is to see places such as Cardowan, Cumnock and Port Ellen associated with a bastion of unearned privilege and wealth through the political avarice of a few old grandees?

I found it absurd – nice, but ridiculous – that two normal people would think they had any hand in the future of money.

All these are in addition to the absurd spectacle of PMQs and the House of Lords, and spadocracy and MPs' expenses, which were mentioned by Timothy Garton Ash.

Handily, they also help explain the egomaniacal narcissism that is having children as well as the absurd love and delight the enterprise engenders.

The three journalists were arrested in their hotel rooms on 29 December and accused of spreading misinformation about Egypt and aiding terrorists – charges they describe as absurd.

In these almost medieval settings, modern intrusions can seem absurd.

We should laugh at her. She's both absurd and sinister, and laughter is a powerful weapon.

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