The phrase "absurd effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an outcome or result that is unreasonable or illogical in a particular context.
Example: "The new policy had an absurd effect on employee morale, leading to widespread dissatisfaction."
Alternatives: "ridiculous outcome" or "preposterous result".
She has often used furniture to comic and absurd effect.
His fish-out-of-water performances colliding art and life to absurd effect have, most famously, seen him don Joseph Beuys's famous guise of artist-shaman, strapping antlers to his head and engaging with communities.
The Second Circuit rejected that position, explaining that it "would have the absurd effect of treating fictitious and arbitrarily assigned paper profits as real and would give legal effect to Madoff's machinations".
Recent opinions from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit are studded with redactions that call to mind the zany game, the one where players fill in blanks in little stories, sometimes to absurd effect.
What ensued was either a masterfully engineered social experiment or two very lost dreamers unaware of their absurd effect on the crowd.
In isolation, the end-times anxieties attached to both the rise of the Islamic State and the spread of Ebola have been unfounded — little wonder that combining the paranoias produced an absurd effect on screen.
Thus, starting at 5 months of age, parental affect influenced infants' affect toward an absurd event, an effect that was magnified at 7 months.
The museum of fakes may be an absurd side-effect.
He achieved a style that was surpassingly nuanced and nimble, and devoted it mostly to the happy marrying of lyrical and absurd comical effects.
Venturing out into the fair, it doesn't take more than a few steps to stumble upon artworks that employ the awkward and the absurd to great effect.
But in trying to determine what Congress meant when it included "established by the State" in the provision in question, he confined his analysis to looking at how the phrase is used elsewhere in the law, and whether King's interpretation would lead to absurd or impossible effects on other passages.
