Sample Sentences for
ludicrous
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    She chewed in church and on the bus; It really was quite ludicrous!  (source)
    ludicrous = ridiculous
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    That's the first thing I feel, which is ludicrous.†  (source)
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    But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains.†  (source)
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    I've read The Zaniest Summer four times, and the ludicrous situations still make me laugh.†  (source)
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    Since the rain had stopped, on the day Grace mouthed her first words, it had been ludicrously warm.†  (source)
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    She flung her listener a glance of provoking disdain, then laughed heartily, as if the ludicrousness of the picture in her mind were too strong for contempt.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The very idea of it was ludicrous, but he accepted it nonetheless.†  (source)
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    He still studied alone in their room all the time, spoke like a science teacher, and required ludicrously small amounts of sleep.†  (source)
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    I decided therefore to occupy myself with some further tasks in the billiard room, assuming she would after a while see the ludicrousness of her position and leave.†  (source)
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    Would it be absolutely ludicrous to try to make out?†  (source)
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    She went ludicrously red.†  (source)
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    "Oh no. Why, sir, if I tell you, it will seem—" Tess's sense of a certain ludicrousness in her errand was now so strong that, notwithstanding her awe of him, and her general discomfort at being here, her rosy lips curved towards a smile, much to the attraction of the swarthy Alexander.†  (source)
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    And this ludicrous fascination with Cedric Diggory.†  (source)
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