Sentences with absurd
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A a - It is absurd to be discussing compulsory redundancy policies for teachers.
- Parkinson had a sharp eye for the absurd.
- Taking up the absurd is seen as a logical antidote to absurd circumstances at large, the stuff that torments us every day on the news.
- Despite its heraldic trappings, Ionesco's absurd comedy deals with a peculiarly modern phenomenon.
- An absurd explanation.
- Unlike modern or abstract painting, landscape paintings project no absurd or symbolical meaning.
- Absurd means laughably inconsistent with what is judged as true or reasonable [an absurd hypothesis]; ludicrous is applied to what is laughable from incongruity or exaggeration [a ludicrous facial expression]; preposterous is used to describe anything flagrantly absurd or ludicrous; , foolish describes that which shows lack of good judgment or of common sense [don't take foolish chances]; silly, ridiculous apply to whatever excites amusement or contempt by reason of its extreme foolishness, , silly often indicating an utterly nonsensical quality