Adjective : a ludicrous lack of efficiency. From Dictionary.com.
Huge amounts are imported from other countries — some now ludicrously from the Far East. From Wordnik.com. [Water Bottle Ban on the Horizon : Law is Cool] Reference
Allegations Senator Allen calls ludicrously false. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2006] Reference
Am I the only one who finds these titles ludicrously nonsensical?. From Wordnik.com. [MODIFYING CAREERS WITH “WOMAN” » Sociological Images] Reference
Private vehicle owners also paid "ludicrously" low licence fees. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The government "ludicrously" decides "who they're gonna prosecute and who's gonna be their buddies," in cases like this. From Wordnik.com. [GJSentinel - Latest News Headlines] Reference
Constitution raised expectations ludicrously high. From Wordnik.com. [MUDDLING THROUGH, TAKE 2] Reference
Each in turn, as we have seen, had ludicrously broken down. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
Under alcohol its responsive script became ludicrously unsteady. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
His legs kicking up ludicrously in the air attracted the attention of. From Wordnik.com. [The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean] Reference
"Yeah," Ross said ludicrously trying to make his big open face look dreamy. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Man] Reference
I give her my full attention, feeling ludicrously affectionate towards her. From Wordnik.com. [The Grief Benches] Reference
Then, ludicrously, the story he had just read to his father came into his mind. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
His leanto was still standing in the clearing, though it looked ludicrously flimsy. From Wordnik.com. [Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel] Reference
As if our ludicrously priced trains weren't already pushing people into their cars. From Wordnik.com. [Short-termism fails the environment] Reference
Still, a 1925 Army study ludicrously asserted that they were cowardly and superstitious. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle For Respect] Reference
It was gathered in by a drawing string at the waist, and made her look ludicrously bunchy. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
As I've mentioned before, terrorists have ludicrously easy access to guns in this country. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Helmke: A Leaderless ATF Chooses the Wrong Target] Reference
Mladic claims, ludicrously, that both Muslims and Croats are better armed than the Serb forces. From Wordnik.com. [Mladic: The Serb Who Calls The Shots] Reference
'Cast away in flight' sounded ludicrously enough in the other's ears, but he was incapable of speech. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Their years on the mag-and-music circuit mean that Hepworth and Ellen are ludicrously well plugged-in. From Wordnik.com. [Word Up] Reference
It had a ludicrously drunken look, as though it were lolling up against the wall -- like a staircase in. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Journalism and political rhetoric about immigration are ludicrously reliant on the trope "out of the shadows.". From Wordnik.com. [Out of What 'Shadows'?] Reference
There was I, alone in the middle of a great circle of sea and sky, alone and confined, and ludicrously helpless. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III.] Reference
Previously, she was best known for her ill-fated stint as ludicrously named ADA Alexandria Borgia on NBC's Law & Order. From Wordnik.com. [Cheers & Jeers: Rubicon — Annie, Get Your Gun!] Reference
By now the stories of risky mortgages, underregulated banks and ludicrously complex investment instruments are familiar. From Wordnik.com. [Review of ÂChasing Goldman Sachs, by Suzanne McGee] Reference
Justin put his hands in his pockets, the character of her opening rendering sentimental advances ludicrously inopportune. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Kathryn Gamberoni makes the most of the title role, even in the ludicrously staged final scene, in which she dies on an altar. From Wordnik.com. [Three Nights At The Opera] Reference
We can take advantage of those biases, as those who sell us ludicrously expensive and irrational warranties on consumer goods do. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Only the fast-food restaurant in the center of the site is privately run, which has so far translated to ludicrously high prices. From Wordnik.com. [A Volcanic Venue] Reference
Sherry's Volume Three is dismissed as "ludicrously self-indulgent and self-obsessed", while Mockler is viewed as merely tiresome. From Wordnik.com. [Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis] Reference
He gazed ludicrously uncomprehending at her, and in his sense of almost conjugal right to the girl failed to realise her delicacy. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
And Griffey, who has hit more home runs in his first decade than McGwire, Mays or Aaron did in theirs, was ludicrously low-balled. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Boys Of Summer] Reference
I would dye it as long as it wouldn't look ludicrously implausible, or if I lived somewhere where I wouldn't run into people I know. From Wordnik.com. [Is it time to go grey?] Reference
And yet nowhere on earth is ignorance so carefully counseled and so almost ludicrously warned as in this place of trickery and innuendo. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
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