ludicrousness

ludicrous | American Dictionary

ludicrous
adjective
us/ˈlu·dɪ·krəs/
ridiculous or foolish; unreasonable or unsuitable:
Some stories that initially seemed ludicrous turned out to be true.

Examples of ludicrous

ludicrous
The world, as he saw it, was full of chisellers and con-men, hypocrites and grifters who were either ludicrous or malevolent or both.
Misplaced confidence in future progress often looks ludicrous when viewed retrospectively through the tunnel of time.
The music is reputed to be very good, the miniatures are fanciful, with monsters and ludicrous bodies in many borders of the book.
Much modern secondary literature besides stands convicted of ludicrous credulity and tendentiousness.
This, of course, is ludicrous : nonexistent things have no properties whatsoever.
Declarations that archaeology can only be pure politics are both ludicrous and terrifying.
Indeed, one could even consider the first to be ludicrous, as it revolves around a fight for hierarchical elevation.
This is a ludicrous position no egalitarian accepts.
There is no evidence of government involvement with such ludicrous notions.
It seemed ludicrous to him, a practical man of the theatre, that other ways were excluded.
Noting its ' ' sudden eminence, ' ' he attributed this to its ' ' ludicrous and cool replay of the forms of the hot media of photo, radio, and film.
It is thus high time the message that human reasoning is "ludicrous," "indefensible," and "self-defeating" be counterbalanced.
Jocularity seems to be in the ear of the listener, and what the 18th century found ludicrous was no laughing matter at the end of the 19th.
Since thesis 6 requires that this ludicrous position be embraced, none of us can reasonably view it as a live option - however much we might wish it were true.
The idea, when analyzed, becomes ludicrous.
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