Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
absurdity .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Absurdity.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a message whose content is at variance with reason
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Examples
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Perhaps someone higher up will see the absurdness in this.
Sony: Go Ahead And Buy An XBOX "Their Support Isn't Much Better" - The Consumerist 2008
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The Evil Dead series is just about the only one which can rival Ghostbusters in mixing the right blend of screams, fun, comedy, and just absolute absurdness.
So just who might direct GHOSTBUSTERS 3? | Obsessed With Film 2009
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Film School Rejects said the film feels like “a mixture between the silliness and absurdness of a Farrelly brothers movie, but with the intelligence of a Coen brothers flick.”
I Love You, Phillip Morris Finds U.S. Distribution | /Film 2009
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Yesterday afternoon, it reached a level of absurdness — so absurd that we can conclude the “blame Rush” strategy has become an instinctive reflex for Democrats without regard to fact.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. What about Ted Kennedy? - Erick’s blog - RedState 2009
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Her sense of humor about herself and the absurdness of her celebrity is really pretty appealing.
Paris Hilton does a pro-McCain ad! Ann Althouse 2008
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Ok, I admit I did have to laugh at the absurdness.
The OJ Book Miss Snark 2006
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Peter Moore and Rob Strasser took the absurdness of what shoes could look like, put them on Michael Jordan, and let him go out and play.
DRIVEN FROM WITHIN MICHAEL JORDAN 2005
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Peter Moore and Rob Strasser took the absurdness of what shoes could look like, put them on Michael Jordan, and let him go out and play.
DRIVEN FROM WITHIN MICHAEL JORDAN 2005
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Peter Moore and Rob Strasser took the absurdness of what shoes could look like, put them on Michael Jordan, and let him go out and play.
DRIVEN FROM WITHIN MICHAEL JORDAN 2005
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In a way, one should be grateful for all of this reactionary behavior--in an age of real, international crisises and massive issues at home in the U.S., the absurdness of the socially ultra-conservative agenda is being brought out into full, bright light.
Archive 2004-02-01 2004
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