All 11 Uses
ludicrous
in
The Water is Wide
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- With rolled-up sleeves and the Brylcreem look of the period, the mob soon became a ludicrous caricature of an entire society.†
p. 7.6
- I felt ludicrously white.†
p. 25.2 *
- He reacted brilliantly, as only a natural performer could, throwing his head back in a ludicrous imitation of sleep, his mouth open, his eyes closed.†
p. 53.2
- He would walk up to me and make these ludicrous faces.†
p. 64.9
- It was insane, ludicrous, and frightening.†
p. 73.9
- The month of September was a ludicrous month and I was a ludicrous person.†
p. 84.6
- The month of September was a ludicrous month and I was a ludicrous person.†
p. 84.6
- The masks Barbara picked out ranged from the ludicrous to the macabre.†
p. 137.9
- This is the most ludicrous scene I've ever been involved in, I was telling myself.†
p. 164.7
- I would have struck a stranger watching this ludicrous, quasi-athletic event dumb.†
p. 181.7
- Beside the grave, her face powdered and rouged in death, her body neatly dressed, her hands folded across her small bosom, her casket decorated with ludicrous frills, lay Blossom Smith.†
p. 233.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(ludicrous) absurd in an amusing way
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)