All 4 Uses of
ludicrous
in
Catch-22
- 'I got this tomato from Colonel Cathcart,' he said, and was struck by how ludicrous his explanation sounded.†
Chpt 20 *
- The girl screeched in feminine outrage and waddled comically after the scheming ten-year-old pimp, her grisly, bleak, violated scalp slithering up and down ludicrously around the queer darkened wart of her face like something bleached and obscene.†
Chpt 22
- He knew that any moment Orr would come walking into the tent with big, glistening, rain-soaked eyes, cheeks and buck teeth, looking ludicrously like a jolly New England oysterman in a yellow oilskin rain hat and slicker numerous sizes too large for him and holding up proudly for Yossarian's amusement a great dead codfish he had caught.†
Chpt 28
- There was a humorless irony in the ludicrous panic of the man screaming for help to the police while policemen were all around him.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(ludicrous) absurd in an amusing way