The phrase "absurd terms" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe conditions or agreements that are unreasonable or illogical.
Example: "The contract was filled with absurd terms that no reasonable person would agree to."
Alternatives: "ridiculous conditions" or "unreasonable stipulations".
In fact, this wasn't the case: all Greece had done was to challenge the absurd terms dictated by Frontex.
Glenn Kessler, of the Washington Post, called it "nonsense," and pointed out that even on Romney's absurd terms it is wrong, since there were fewer ships in George W. Bush's Navy than in Obama's.
ATHENS, June 5 (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday spurned "absurd" terms of proposed aid from lenders and delayed a debt payment to the International Monetary Fund, prolonging an impasse that threatens to push Greece into default and out of the euro zone.
To which Yad Vashem had to reply in almost absurd terms: "Persons who assisted Jews but simultaneously collaborated or were linked with a fascist regime which took part in the Nazi-orchestrated persecution of Jews, may be disqualified for the Righteous title".
Vanguard is a "patient-centred medical home", an absurd term for a promising idea.
"Have you got an, um, pessary?" "Pessary?" She tried not to snort at the absurd term, which struck her as Midwestern, if not actually Victorian.
When Michaels's first novel, "Fugitive Pieces," appeared in 1996, this technique — "lyric fiction" is an absurd term, but is there a better one?
Adam Smith's career as a published author did not begin until 1759.Amy AtchisonFlower Mound, TexasSIR – The "pursuit of happiness" is an absurd term as it is logically impossible to pursue happiness, or chance.
If I decide to partake in "legalized cheating" (an absurd term I use occasionally because it seems to be the only way some people can wrap their minds around what I am doing) I believe I should have the freedom to do so.
In court in mid-July, Khodorkovsky denied the accusations, saying, "These charges are just as absurd in terms of the law as they are in terms of common sense".
While hell-is-other-people Sartre came to invoke a notion of the "group-in-fusion," Camus — who had to keep explaining to the students that he was not and never had been an "existentialist" — increasingly redefined the "absurd" in terms of an inevitable failure of language to bridge the gap between individuals.
