All 3 Uses
ludicrous
in
Great Expectations
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- I use the word natural, in the sense of its being unaffected; there was something comic in his distraught way, as though it would have been downright ludicrous but for his own perception that it was very near being so.†
p. 197.3
- Nor did I ever regard him as having anything ludicrous about him—or anything but what was serious, honest, and good—in his tutor communication with me.†
p. 206.9 *
- Some sense of the grimly-ludicrous moved me to a fretful laugh, as I replied, "I have looked over it.†
p. 352.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(ludicrous) absurd in an amusing way
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)