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Discover LudwigThe phrase "appear ludicrous" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that seems ridiculous or absurd in a particular context. Example: "His explanation for being late to the meeting seemed to appear ludicrous to everyone present."
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While our thought experiment may at first appear ludicrous, the people of Honduras might not think it so.
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What appears ludicrous and implausible and outrageous usually is".
Even some of Mr. Sik's staunchest critics say the charges against him appeared ludicrous.
The sovereign debt and single currency crises of the past two years have raised existential issues about the EU, questions about its longevity and survival, which would have appeared ludicrous if asked only a few years ago.
In addition, the G.I. Bill was democratizing American society so broadly that the tiny subculture of cafe society appeared ludicrous while Las Vegas, Miami and Havana were drawing millions of those marks who now demanded gambling and Big Name entertainers to go with their drinking.
In the 1960s, when the nation was offered the ploughman's lunch, toasters appeared with ludicrous painted decorations of wheatsheafs.
For the ball to travel ahead of both Giteau and Smith, who shrugged off Jack Nowell and Luke Arscott to score, appeared plain ludicrous.
"You look ludicrous.
However ludicrous they appear now, those picks were hard to fault.
Very small plates should appear which cost laughably ludicrous amounts and there must be an ever-present risk of paying £150 plus per head and leaving slightly hungry.
What he shows us is the void, against which human activity appears by turns ludicrous, frantic and sad.
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