All 3 Uses
ludicrous
in
Oliver Twist
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- Master Bates saw something so exquisitely ludicrous in this reply, that he burst into another laugh; which laugh, meeting the coffee he was drinking, and carrying it down some wrong channel, very nearly terminated in his premature suffocation.†
Chpt 9
- At sight of the dismayed look with which Oliver regarded his tormentors, Master Bates, who was blessed with a lively sense of the ludicrous, fell into another ectasy, more boisterous than the first.†
Chpt 16 *
- The bewildered butler gazed from them towards Oliver, and from Oliver towards Mr. Losberne, with a most ludicrous mixture of fear and perplexity.†
Chpt 31
Definitions:
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(1)
(ludicrous) absurd in an amusing way
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)