Ludicrous

Examples

• The curse is laid upon them of being and doing what it approves, and when they attempt first principles the failure is ludicrous. Plato. The Republic.
• Some sense of the grimly-ludicrous moved me to a fretful laugh, as I replied, I have looked over it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Glaucon said, with a ludicrous earnestness: By the light of heaven, how amazing! Plato. The Republic.
• For an instant the scene was ludicrous; but only for an instant. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Celia felt a sort of shame mingled with a sense of the ludicrous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The contrast of her manners and appearance with those of the heiress, made the idea of a union with the latter appear doubly ludicrous and odious. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The bewildered butler gazed from them towards Oliver, and from Oliver towards Mr. Losberne, with a most ludicrous mixture of fear and perplexity. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Sincerity is never ludicrous; it is always respectable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Now commenced a series of evolutions which even then seemed ludicrous in the extreme. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The word system is much abused in invention, and during the early days of electric lighting its use applied to a mere freakish lamp or dynamo was often ludicrous. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But you called the situation just now, a ludicrous one; and most men object to that, even those who are utterly indifferent to everything else. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But, all the place was pervaded by a grimly ludicrous pretence that every pupil was childish and innocent. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The eldest, Miss Jemima, wore a sort of a false rump, sticking out so, and Leinster put himself into a most ludicrous attitude. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I own to the weakness of objecting to occupy a ludicrous position, and therefore I transfer the position to the scouts. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The redundancy of his alertness was half-vexing, half-ludicrous: in my mind I both disapproved and derided most of this fuss. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• And yet the reasons are utterly ludicrous which they give in confirmation of their own notions about the honourable and good. Plato. The Republic.
• He stood for a few minutes holding the candle aloft, and blinking on our travellers with a dismal and mystified expression that was truly ludicrous. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• His formal array of words might have at any other time, as it has often had, something ludicrous in it, but at this time it is serious and affecting. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Emile Roux said that Pasteur's agitation at witnessing the slightest exhibition of pain would have been ludicrous if, in so great a man, it had not been touching. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

Typist: Sanford