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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a nonsensical idea" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an idea that lacks meaning or makes no logical sense.
Example: "The proposal to build a bridge to the moon is truly a nonsensical idea."
Alternatives: "an absurd notion" or "a ridiculous concept."
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It's a nonsensical idea".
It is a nonsensical idea and no one at ITV is going to give it a moment's consideration.
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It is a well intentioned, but from a development perspective, nonsensical idea; promoting computer literacy rather than putting those same resources toward the tools necessary to use them, better nutrition and basic education.If people in developing countries are given any sort of technology it should be mobile phones.
Jones's insistence that this is an "absurd and scientifically nonsensical" idea is overruled when Downing Street realises the project's potential.
Their crime: daring to challenge the palpably nonsensical idea that Scotland might not be able to survive as an independent state.
The nonsensical idea that "racism cuts both ways" is peddled by the English Defence League, which has escalated violent campaigns of intimidation in the name of "indigenous" Britons.
The public mood towards British politics is a bitter cocktail of institutional apathy and lacklustre anger, which opens up a spot for someone to swoop in with bizarre, extreme, nonsensical ideas and get everyone all flustered and excited.
That's a very typical sample of the generic lyrics that combine cliches like "turning tide" with nonsensical ideas (ghosts that never died?) and awkward rhymes, all delivered in a bland rap style.
This is a kind of "iron law of privacy," that can be used to quickly weed out nonsensical ideas.
The art of the 20th century was littered with all sorts of nonsensical ideas – from theosophy to the fifth dimension, from skewed modernist ideas of progress and universality to quasi-religious calls to faith in the artist's shamanistic and magical powers.
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