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"comically absurd" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you are trying to describe something that is ridiculous for humorous effect. For example, "The idea of a one-man parade is comically absurd."
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Mr. Clarke is able to make their isolation both heart-rending and comically absurd.
His manoeuvres are both comically absurd and somehow threatening (a characteristic Mantel mix).
Rust might have been presented as comically absurd, but instead he is the show's guiding philosopher.
Quentin Ring on the comically absurd dystopia of Joshua Baldwin's L.A.-set novella, "The Wilshire Sun".
Of course, toy companies already have a record of comically absurd sexism when it comes to film merchandise.
In "Jigsaw," this comes off as comically absurd; in "Three Billboards," it is played with a righteous earnestness.
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There is much that was comically preposterous about the clandestine way in which Nixon and Henry Kissinger sought their opening to China, and James Mann has clearly enjoyed digging up some of the more absurd details of three decades of Sino-American diplomacy since.
Things have gone from comically and disturbingly absurd to legitimately terrifying.
(Kalinin? Who remembers him?) Once-murderous stories change to reveal new meanings, become absurd, even comically touching – and perhaps will not be interpretable at all, for a next generation.
The London press treated the work as a comically labor-intensive one-liner, a monument less to the pope's absurd burden than to the artist's absurd effort.
"Orphan," by contrast, comes in at a padded 2 hours 2 minutes, which is absurd for a dopey "boo" movie — as in creaking sound plus abrupt visual cut equals "boo!" — with a comically contrived premise.
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