The phrase "absurd figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a number or statistic that seems unreasonable or illogical in a given context.
Example: "The report presented an absurd figure for the expected revenue, which raised eyebrows among the investors."
Alternatives: "ridiculous number" or "preposterous amount".
But don't you think he's kind of an absurd figure?
"What was the BBC doing promoting this absurd figure, this absurd and malign figure?
"He is turning into an absurd figure and those pictures are beyond parody," said one leading Blair aide yesterday.
Podsnap is an absurd figure, whose blindness to the failings of his country affords Dickens a lot of fun.
She would like 35% of the EU population, rather than today's absurd figure of 51%, to be covered.
I fancied myself as a riot photographer, and rented out my left shoulder to heft cameras into street demonstrations for the absurd figure of $35 a riot.
We dare not ask on what basis the judge accepted these absurd figures, which amount to the city's entire cruise industry.
Cold-water winters come to life, absurd figures sing badly and play worse, and great stories about the discovery of black folk music by white non-folk musicians abound.
Dressed entirely in pale beige except for red shoes, he is surrounded by grotesque, fantastic and absurd figures who variously personify the monarchy, the church, the rich and the ever fickle masses.
Add the leftish New Democrats (NDP), with 6.5% and 9 seats, and Canada had got the government it wanted but certainly not the parliament (where indeed the official "leader of the opposition" was the Bloc's Lucien Bouchard, a party and a man who would sooner not be Canadian at all).The coming election may partly redress these absurd figures.
The Lancer investors claim that despite these concerns, Citco continued to disseminate "misleading" NAV statements with the "absurd" figures at the behest of Keunen.
