(a.) Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream.
(n.) An absurdity.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Steven Brounstein, a lawyer for one of the officers, said: 'For the DA to be equating this case to a drive-by shooting is absurd.
(2) Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous.
(3) In any halfway-awake western nation, and, to be frank, in many reaches of British national life, this would be considered an amateurish absurdity, a guarantee of eventual failure.
(4) But the same court also just refused to hear an appeal of a Minnesota woman who's been ordered to pay more than $220,000 for downloading two-dozen songs – a testament to Congress' gift to Hollywood and its allies in the form of absurdly stiff penalties for minor infringement.
(5) I think the heart of good comedy really lives in truth and reacting to the absurdities, hypocrisies, abuses of power in the world.” Late night television is a no longer a glass of warm milk before bed, it’s a lunch buffet And as TV viewership declines and internet virality becomes as important as real-time eyeballs, cable networks might find that topical comedy is a smart, cost-effective way to grab cross-platform attention.
(6) It might seem absurd, but she also fretted about the horrendous poll tax bills received by people she knew, people she knew couldn't pay.
(7) He would have seen the absurdity in a chancellor admitting that his sums are so badly out that Britain will borrow more than double this year than the £37bn he originally promised – and claiming that as a triumph.
(8) The idea that opposition to the renewal of Trident is an extreme policy confined to the British left is absurd.
(9) SC, Manchester Spark Energy, one of Britain's smaller electricity suppliers, failed to notice that your bill was absurd.
(10) British officials said it was absurd that at one point Merkel seemed to want to remove most references to the eurozone crisis from the communique.
(11) Harry Kane, reminding everyone how absurd it was to think his confidence might be broken, may just have to accept this will not be a night that is remembered for his goal.
(12) Karl Habsburg-Lothringen supported his cousin's action: "The Habsburg law is absurd, there's nothing else to be said about it.
(13) In fact, the body of evidence about how much it matters is mushrooming, so that it seems almost absurd to anyone who knows anything about children's development that we still think that a baby's physical health at the birth is all that matters.
(14) Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling breached all those, absurdly calling objectors 'job snobs'.
(15) Last month, along with Slovenia, Croatia and non-EU members Serbia and Macedonia, Austria – which has rejected Brussels’ criticism of its policy as “absurd” – imposed strict new restrictions, including a daily cap on the number of asylum seekers and migrants they would allow to enter their territory.
(16) Absurdly, the shops lack local staples – sugar, milk, flour – but are well stocked with subsidised imports such as single-malt whisky and Italian panettone.
(17) The idea that human breastmilk may not be good enough for human babies is clearly absurd.
(18) The woman snaps out of bed and opens her eyes, absurdly conscious and alive, wonderfully lucid.
(19) We are talking here about the absurd.” Ah, the absurd.
(20) Each sentence seems more absurd than the last until you are finally and irredeemably overwhelmed by its relentless meaningful meaninglessness.
Farce
Definition:
(v. t.) To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.
(v. t.) To render fat.
(v. t.) To swell out; to render pompous.
(v. t.) Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.
(v. t.) A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions.
(v. t.) Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce.
Example Sentences:
(1) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(2) China greeted the announcement of Liu Xiaobo’s win with fury: a foreign ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, attacked the event as a “political farce”.
(3) President Juan Manuel Santos said he valued the gesture from the Farc, but warned it was not enough.
(4) It would be a farce if we failed to reach agreement because of the process," he said.
(5) What we are seeing is the government really squabbling over what is such an important and profound piece of legislation for our country, like kids in a schoolyard.” Shorten told reporters on Sunday the government’s citizenship laws were “rapidly descending into a farce”, and called on it to urgently release the text of the legislation so Labor could scrutinise it.
(6) Sometimes the public’s legitimate fears are exposed: in Colombia there’s no doubt the public felt uneasy about forgiving Farc for its bloody violence.
(7) Well it is such ages since the last emergency Farc meeting that nobody can agree what Farc stands for?
(8) The Farc negotiators reiterated their insistence that the rebel leader Simon Trinidad, who is serving a 60-year sentence in a US prison after being convicted of kidnapping three Americans, be allowed to participate as a negotiator.
(9) "It's encouraging because we always thought the whole thing would be a farce but we didn't realise it would be this bad for them and they wouldn't be able to get anywhere near the numbers," he said.
(10) But he said the near farce of Romney's trip will reinforce doubts in the minds of some voters about his fitness for the presidency.
(11) The opposition leader, Delia Lawrie, said the matter was “descending into farce” and called for the government to “at least” enact an independent judicial inquiry.
(12) After this disgraceful farce of wrongful blame (the spokespeople for the police and the NHS happy to tolerate, if not encourage, the misleading targeting of the social workers), the right questions are still being ignored.
(13) Farc negotiators used the meeting to rail against Colombia's neo-liberal economic model and foreign investment in the country.
(14) But proceedings quickly descended into farce, with the defendants' legal team chanting "the people demand the return of the president" and flashing a four-fingered "Rabaa" salute that has become a calling-card for Morsi supporters.
(15) We choose not to participate in this farce,” said the senate minority leader, Dan Blue of Raleigh.
(16) Click here for the Magic in the Moonlight trailer Compared with the gloomy ruminations on ageing and aspiration that characterised the well-received Blue Jasmine, which won Cate Blanchett an Oscar , this is Allen going back to the knockabout farce and blithe May-December couplings that populate his lighter films.
(17) The Farc have said they are willing to put down their arms but not hand them over to the state.
(18) You can only do that for so long until trust is worn down and it becomes a farce.” Tyler warned that Trump is in for a rough ride if Comey views this as a moment of reckoning.
(19) Three: an agreement by the Farc to cease cocaine production to fund its war.
(20) This point in and of itself completely explains why data retention is an absolute farce, and is in no way a deterrent to terrorism.