All 4 Uses of
ludicrous
in
Bleak House
- The idea of his taking himself well to task, with that laughing face and heedless manner and with a fancy that everything could catch and nothing could hold, was ludicrously anomalous.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- "The oddity of the thing is," said Mr. Skimpole with a quickened sense of the ludicrous, "that my chairs and tables were not paid for, and yet my landlord walks off with them as composedly as possible.†
Chpt 16-18
- His formal array of words might have at any other time, as it has often had, something ludicrous in it, but at this time it is serious and affecting.†
Chpt 58-60
- As I naturally speculated on the object of these visits, and as I always associated something ludicrous with the visitor, it fell out that in laughing about Mr. Guppy I told my guardian of his old proposal and his subsequent retraction.†
Chpt 64-65
Definition:
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(ludicrous) absurd in an amusing way