How To Use Ludicrously In A Sentence
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The multiples for emerging market stocks were ludicrously cheap in relation to their North American or European counterparts.
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He was ludicrously cautioned in stoppage time for time-wasting.
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From the amazing All-Clad pots and pans to the ludicrously expensive cast-iron Le Creuset ovenware, his kitchen accouterments are all top drawer.
Weapons of massdistraction › Easy As Pie
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Updates, 1/24: James Wolcott: Every year or so critics, audiences, and Academy voters decide to adopt a puppy, and this year the adorable scamp is Little Miss Sunshine, ludicrously nominated for Best Picture.
GreenCine Daily: Oscars. Nominations.
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Allegations Senator Allen calls ludicrously false.
CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2006
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She smiled as she recalled the ludicrously penitent expression with which Emma had delivered the letter.
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus
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Identity cards would also bring to an end the ludicrously haphazard methods that individual organisations now employ to mount their own security checks.
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They are ludicrously pricey but no other predinner snack looks as good.
Times, Sunday Times
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Things should bode well after this ludicrously extreme, but cool, opening sequence.
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For a moment he gazed in blankest amazement, the fury wiped ludicrously from his face.
Gatlinburg
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Not So began at a ludicrously fast clip.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ludicrously irrelevant thoughts swarmed in her head.
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At around two hours and twenty minutes it does seem a tad overlong and sure, some of the dialogue is ludicrously corny.
The Sun
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He is that indecent thing, a man whose dreams not only came true ludicrously early but remain in pristine condition.
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At a society ball, she was wooed by a ludicrously suave Hungarian count.
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Yet, in the event, the positions seemed ludicrously inapposite.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or if I do, it's so ludicrously truncated and ineffectual as to be useless.
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Western Europe is apt to depreciate modern 'Hellenism', chiefly because its ambitious denomination rather ludicrously challenges comparison with a vanished glory, while any one who has studied its rise must perceive that it has little more claim than western Europe itself to be the peculiar heir of ancient Greek culture.
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
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(I remember another such, the excellent but ludicrously hampering low-budget film called "It Happened Here", but that was more of a "what would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain?" film in docu-style than a "drama-doc".)
Film
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A tiny insect , trying to shake a mighty tree, is ludicrously ignorant of its own weakness.
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It's your great advantage that you don't think you can look like her by ludicrously painting your eyebrows and dolling yourself up like a rock star.
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The state of irritation in which he was kept at this time, brought on a prolonged attack of the gout, and the scenes which often took place were described as ludicrously tragical for the younger officers, who were obliged to approach him officially.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
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The overall story, with its sometimes ludicrously banal dialogue, is solely to blame for this.
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It calls for the abolition of awards as it argues ludicrously that this will serve the interests of the low-paid and make the country "a richer and fairer society."
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The 1.0 standard - which is ludicrously vague and incomplete, but includes code samples - is roundly criticized, if not ridiculed, by every knowledgeable person who reviews it.
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Given the ludicrously slow tempo and poor pedaling he imposes throughout, he is not even remotely up to the work's complex technical demands.
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She is a perpetual graduate student writing a thesis on the women in the Iliad, and is ludicrously neurotic in every way.
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Am I the only one who finds these titles ludicrously nonsensical?
MODIFYING CAREERS WITH “WOMAN” » Sociological Images
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The coat itself is what is called a jerkin; and as the buttons behind are half-way up his back, it is a matter of course that the tail, which runs rapidly to a point, is ludicrously scanty.
Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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Myself and my friend stood and marvelled at the incredible array of ludicrously attractive nubile women.
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Ludicrously, he bemoans that these fees are "unfair," yet they are continuing to be imposed with residents dragged to court while he does nothing!
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This ludicrously overrated copycat director gives a nonperformance to temper the ardor of his most slavish fans.
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It may sound ludicrously extravagant but it's really not as expensive as you might think.
The Sun
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Schoppe, the satiric chorus of Jean Paul's romance of Titan, makes his appearance at a certain masked ball, carrying in front of him a glass case, in which the ball is remasked, repeated, and again reflected in a mirror behind, by a set of puppets, ludicrously aping the apery of the courtiers, whose whole life and outward manifestation was but a body-mask mechanically moved with the semblance of real life and action.
A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare
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The program ludicrously lists the cast alphabetically, thereby throwing the first 20 minutes out the window until you have discovered who everyone is.
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Even a moderately soulful vocal from Pharrell can't save this, which literally sounds like SHM are testing out every setting on their ludicrously expensive synths by bashing out the same cretinous non-riff.
This week's new singles
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Private vehicle owners also paid "ludicrously" low licence fees.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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It was ludicrously suggested that she would become "the Number One congressional leader," but she didn't bother to show up.
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By Western standards the prices are ludicrously low.
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Huge amounts are imported from other countries — some now ludicrously from the Far East.
Water Bottle Ban on the Horizon : Law is Cool
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Much of what she describes as feminine seemed ludicrously romanticized or frivolous to me: sunbathing, not being able to drive in reverse.
Freud’s Blind Spot
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This was his ‘big idea’ and it was a hopelessly ill-conceived and ludicrously expensive one.
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The heroine takes off to India, where she ludicrously exchanges her laptop for Tibetan incenses.
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`I'm actually being ludicrously overgenerous ,' she sighed, `that's so typical of me.
BEHINDLINGS
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I had devoted no more than a footnote to Paul Buhle, who had ludicrously described Karl Kautsky, Louis Althusser, and Harry Pollitt as "cretinoid intellectuals of Europe.
Revisiting American Communism: An Exchange
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His energy is used only for composing and for music - as well as the ludicrously generous amount of time he gives to his students.
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Marcus Powell's ludicrously cross-gartered Malvolio seems not only to have abandoned his senses, but taken up golf.
Twelfth Night
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As he ludicrously attempts to claim is widespread among New York hipsters, she is "deck."
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I haven't even begun to talk about where he gets his funding or how ludicrously quick every puzzle is solved.
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Those two sides have plenty of time to interact due to the ludicrously lax security arrangements.
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During the ludicrously extended results programme last week, Martin launched an ill-tempered attack on what she described as the ‘attitude’ of some of the female contestants.
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He has been allowed such a long leash and with a ludicrously large pay packet, he must feel invincible.
The Sun
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The keyboardist loomed like some kind of elder wizard, clad in ludicrously bright long coats.
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The scene is a ludicrously expensive suite at Salford's Lowry Hotel, the kind of place record companies only book bands into after they've sold squillions of records, like New Order.
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The euro is "ludicrously" high for many of the struggling European countries such as Greece, but it is even too high for Germany, which is a competitive country.
British Blogs
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After what The Economist called a "ludicrously irresponsible bout of fiscal brinksmanship," the markets continued to churn, and the angry young facing unemployment as high as 45.7 percent left the beach for the barricades in London and other cities in the UK.
Roger Fransecky: Help Wanted!
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The dog ludicrously albeit lovingly christened Precious Baby by Ted's late wife and resolutely called PB by Ted himself - hesitated at the doorway and blinked out at the street, where the autumn rain was falling in the sort of steady waves that presaged alengthy and bone-chilling storm.
A Traitor to Memory
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She's just awful in her role as the psychiatrist who ludicrously gets stuck in the precinct.
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Those two sides have plenty of time to interact due to the ludicrously lax security arrangements.
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This charming paragraph illustrates the vitality of scandal, and at the same time shows how ludicrously rumor and tradition mistell stories in the face of evidence.
A Book About Lawyers
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The players ludicrously threatened not to travel to Turkey if their teammate wasn't reinstated.
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This is the thing about car ownership: it is ludicrously, hideously expensive.
Times, Sunday Times
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The plot is so ludicrously convoluted that the actors really need to work to distract us from it.
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That would seem to be Alastair Campbell's opinion: it was reported a few weeks ago that he rang up at least one local activist to claim ( "ludicrously", thinks Kevin Maguire) that she is being spoken of as a future prime minister.
British Blogs
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The results are ludicrously obvious to outsiders but are virtually invisible to longtime members of the culture.
LIVING ON THE FAULT LINE, REVISED EDITION
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South Morang is a ludicrously boring place which saps you of the will to do anything but turn around and go home.
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While I sat up all night in fear of a cracker-nibbling rat, trying to watch TV and ignore the ludicrously loud scratchy noises, I was contemplating my happiness.
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The heroine's honour is unjustly impugned, but her alleged crime is such a peccadillo that the emotions associated with it seem ludicrously overblown.
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His face hadn't seen a razor for the best part of a week, for which he ludicrously incurred the wrath of the network commentator.
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Brady with whom he had started off to "Parus" on a month’s summer junket, and with whom he had stumbled so ludicrously into the riff-raff ranks of the 3rd Foreign Legion.
Barbarians
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He has been allowed such a long leash and with a ludicrously large pay packet, he must feel invincible.
The Sun
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Making casual work illegal, by such devices as minimum wage laws and ludicrously restrictive safety regulations, is a complete disaster for the poor, because it destroys the first few rungs of the economic ladder.
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Excluding some citizens from running in elections because of their ethnicity is a ludicrously backward concept.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Workplaces are full of people who incubate pointless envy, who nurse rivalries, who are unembarrassed to exhibit ludicrously vaulting ambition.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are expected to bow down before the divinely written Word, even when that Word famously, ludicrously contradicts itself over and over and over again.
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Sadly, the film is being ludicrously overhyped, and thus many may end up feeling a bit let down upon actually seeing it.
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I certainly do not need my beach time spoilt by the sight of dozens of police ludicrously measuring the spaces occupied by deckchairs, as happened recently.
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He had seen Tom Ricketts, of the fourth form, who used to wear a jacket and trousers so ludicrously tight, that the elder boys could not forbear using him in the quality of a butt or 'cockshy' -- he had seen this very Ricketts arrayed in crimson and gold, with an immense bear-skin cap on his head, staggering under the colours of the regiment.
The History of Pendennis
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As energy prices soar, it will seem ludicrously wasteful to cart goods halfway round the world.
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They have put a British rider at the top of the podium, three years ahead of what seemed a ludicrously ambitious schedule.
Times, Sunday Times
