All 3 Uses of
ludicrous
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- In the aspect of this dark-arrayed, pale-faced, ladylike old figure there was a deeply tragic character that contrasted irreconcilably with the ludicrous pettiness of her employment.†
Chpt 2
- Heaven help our poor old Hepzibah, and forgive us for taking a ludicrous view of her position!†
Chpt 2 *
- It is a heavy annoyance to a writer, who endeavors to represent nature, its various attitudes and circumstances, in a reasonably correct outline and true coloring, that so much of the mean and ludicrous should be hopelessly mixed up with the purest pathos which life anywhere supplies to him.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
absurd in an amusing way