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Discover LudwigThe phrase "absurd appointment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a job or position is deemed unreasonable or illogical.
Example: "The decision to promote someone with no experience to such a critical role was an absurd appointment that left everyone baffled."
Alternatives: "ridiculous assignment" or "preposterous position".
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So the most absurd editorial appointment in the Daily Telegraph's history ended with a whimper when Jason Seiken was quietly relieved of his responsibilities last week.
Salman's appointment would be absurd".
On August 1, 2013, Deutsche Bank launched the single most absurd assertion to block Yellen's appointment.
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart thankfully has taken the VA and the administration to task for the absurd backlog in scheduling doctor's appointments for veterans.
Plaid Cymru education spokesman Simon Thomas welcomed Prof Donaldson's appointment, but said it was "absurd that we have not yet managed to establish a national Welsh curriculum since devolution, almost fifteen years".
Similarly, justifying the waiver based on appointment of a qualified deputy is absurd since all superintendents have credentialed subordinates.
"The appointment of Cathie Black is insulting and absurd," said Sam Coleman, a second-grade teacher in a cape.
Istvan Marta, the director of the New Theatre (Hungarian: Uj Szinhaz) for the past 13 years, told the BBC that the appointment was "incomprehensible - part of an absurd, even tragicomic drama".
It is absurd that after a two-year, $3 billion presidential election, presidential appointments can simply be blocked in the cloak room with no discussion.
It would be absurd to imagine a doctor lingering over one of these images between appointments, being interested in it or somehow attached to it, having his day inflected by it or whatever.
"Not even Cristina Kirchner did anything so absurd," said one of Argentina's chief constitutional experts, Daniel Sabsay, of the supreme court appointments.
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