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I always had a soft spot for the New Romantics, with their ludicrous clothes and lavish make-up.
Famously, Sir John Drummond, the director of the Proms at the time, compared him to Liberace and criticised his "ludicrous clothes and grotesque, self-invented accent".
We despised the record industry, gave not even two hoots for the sensitivities of our publisher or the profits of their shareholders, and relentlessly satirised even favourite musicians like Bryan Ferry - whose ludicrous clothes and fragile ego inspired us to seek endlessly for new ways to misspell his name.
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Speaking at the launch of his memoirs, Tainted by Experience, Sir John, 65, described Kennedy's clothes as "ludicrous" and mocked his accent as "self-invented".
(Just as an aside: art parties are better than pop ones. More ludicrous extravagance, more ridiculous people, much funnier clothes).
We buy into factory farmed meat and clothes made by slaves and that's ludicrous.
Oufkir writes, "We were entering the world of insanity". How ludicrous, they mused, that they'd packed their designer clothes in their Louis Vuitton luggage.
But, classic tailoring aside, French girls have a way of wearing clothes that, on any lesser mortal, would look simply ludicrous.
comparison ludicrous.
Ludicrous thought?
Clearly ludicrous.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com