How To Use Ludicrously In A Sentence
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He has been allowed such a long leash and with a ludicrously large pay packet, he must feel invincible.
The Sun
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This charming paragraph illustrates the vitality of scandal, and at the same time shows how ludicrously rumor and tradition mistell stories in the face of evidence.
A Book About Lawyers
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Those two sides have plenty of time to interact due to the ludicrously lax security arrangements.
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She's just awful in her role as the psychiatrist who ludicrously gets stuck in the precinct.
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The dog ludicrously albeit lovingly christened Precious Baby by Ted's late wife and resolutely called PB by Ted himself - hesitated at the doorway and blinked out at the street, where the autumn rain was falling in the sort of steady waves that presaged alengthy and bone-chilling storm.
A Traitor to Memory
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After what The Economist called a "ludicrously irresponsible bout of fiscal brinksmanship," the markets continued to churn, and the angry young facing unemployment as high as 45.7 percent left the beach for the barricades in London and other cities in the UK.
Roger Fransecky: Help Wanted!
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The euro is "ludicrously" high for many of the struggling European countries such as Greece, but it is even too high for Germany, which is a competitive country.
British Blogs
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The scene is a ludicrously expensive suite at Salford's Lowry Hotel, the kind of place record companies only book bands into after they've sold squillions of records, like New Order.
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The keyboardist loomed like some kind of elder wizard, clad in ludicrously bright long coats.
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He has been allowed such a long leash and with a ludicrously large pay packet, he must feel invincible.
The Sun
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Much of what she describes as feminine seemed ludicrously romanticized or frivolous to me: sunbathing, not being able to drive in reverse.
Freud’s Blind Spot
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Those two sides have plenty of time to interact due to the ludicrously lax security arrangements.
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I haven't even begun to talk about where he gets his funding or how ludicrously quick every puzzle is solved.
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As he ludicrously attempts to claim is widespread among New York hipsters, she is "deck."
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Marcus Powell's ludicrously cross-gartered Malvolio seems not only to have abandoned his senses, but taken up golf.
Twelfth Night
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His energy is used only for composing and for music - as well as the ludicrously generous amount of time he gives to his students.
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I had devoted no more than a footnote to Paul Buhle, who had ludicrously described Karl Kautsky, Louis Althusser, and Harry Pollitt as "cretinoid intellectuals of Europe.
Revisiting American Communism: An Exchange
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`I'm actually being ludicrously overgenerous ,' she sighed, `that's so typical of me.
BEHINDLINGS
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The heroine takes off to India, where she ludicrously exchanges her laptop for Tibetan incenses.
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This was his ‘big idea’ and it was a hopelessly ill-conceived and ludicrously expensive one.
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During the ludicrously extended results programme last week, Martin launched an ill-tempered attack on what she described as the ‘attitude’ of some of the female contestants.
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They have put a British rider at the top of the podium, three years ahead of what seemed a ludicrously ambitious schedule.
Times, Sunday Times
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As energy prices soar, it will seem ludicrously wasteful to cart goods halfway round the world.
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He had seen Tom Ricketts, of the fourth form, who used to wear a jacket and trousers so ludicrously tight, that the elder boys could not forbear using him in the quality of a butt or 'cockshy' -- he had seen this very Ricketts arrayed in crimson and gold, with an immense bear-skin cap on his head, staggering under the colours of the regiment.
The History of Pendennis
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I certainly do not need my beach time spoilt by the sight of dozens of police ludicrously measuring the spaces occupied by deckchairs, as happened recently.
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Sadly, the film is being ludicrously overhyped, and thus many may end up feeling a bit let down upon actually seeing it.
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We are expected to bow down before the divinely written Word, even when that Word famously, ludicrously contradicts itself over and over and over again.
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Workplaces are full of people who incubate pointless envy, who nurse rivalries, who are unembarrassed to exhibit ludicrously vaulting ambition.
Times, Sunday Times
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Excluding some citizens from running in elections because of their ethnicity is a ludicrously backward concept.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Making casual work illegal, by such devices as minimum wage laws and ludicrously restrictive safety regulations, is a complete disaster for the poor, because it destroys the first few rungs of the economic ladder.
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The players ludicrously threatened not to travel to Turkey if their teammate wasn't reinstated.
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Brady with whom he had started off to "Parus" on a month’s summer junket, and with whom he had stumbled so ludicrously into the riff-raff ranks of the 3rd Foreign Legion.
Barbarians
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His face hadn't seen a razor for the best part of a week, for which he ludicrously incurred the wrath of the network commentator.
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The heroine's honour is unjustly impugned, but her alleged crime is such a peccadillo that the emotions associated with it seem ludicrously overblown.
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While I sat up all night in fear of a cracker-nibbling rat, trying to watch TV and ignore the ludicrously loud scratchy noises, I was contemplating my happiness.
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South Morang is a ludicrously boring place which saps you of the will to do anything but turn around and go home.
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The results are ludicrously obvious to outsiders but are virtually invisible to longtime members of the culture.
LIVING ON THE FAULT LINE, REVISED EDITION
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That would seem to be Alastair Campbell's opinion: it was reported a few weeks ago that he rang up at least one local activist to claim ( "ludicrously", thinks Kevin Maguire) that she is being spoken of as a future prime minister.
British Blogs
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The plot is so ludicrously convoluted that the actors really need to work to distract us from it.
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This is the thing about car ownership: it is ludicrously, hideously expensive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ludicrously, he bemoans that these fees are "unfair," yet they are continuing to be imposed with residents dragged to court while he does nothing!
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A tiny insect , trying to shake a mighty tree, is ludicrously ignorant of its own weakness.
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(I remember another such, the excellent but ludicrously hampering low-budget film called "It Happened Here", but that was more of a "what would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain?" film in docu-style than a "drama-doc".)
Film
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Western Europe is apt to depreciate modern 'Hellenism', chiefly because its ambitious denomination rather ludicrously challenges comparison with a vanished glory, while any one who has studied its rise must perceive that it has little more claim than western Europe itself to be the peculiar heir of ancient Greek culture.
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
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Or if I do, it's so ludicrously truncated and ineffectual as to be useless.
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Yet, in the event, the positions seemed ludicrously inapposite.
Times, Sunday Times
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At a society ball, she was wooed by a ludicrously suave Hungarian count.
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He is that indecent thing, a man whose dreams not only came true ludicrously early but remain in pristine condition.
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At around two hours and twenty minutes it does seem a tad overlong and sure, some of the dialogue is ludicrously corny.
The Sun
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Ludicrously irrelevant thoughts swarmed in her head.
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The multiples for emerging market stocks were ludicrously cheap in relation to their North American or European counterparts.
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For a moment he gazed in blankest amazement, the fury wiped ludicrously from his face.
Gatlinburg
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Things should bode well after this ludicrously extreme, but cool, opening sequence.
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They are ludicrously pricey but no other predinner snack looks as good.
Times, Sunday Times
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Identity cards would also bring to an end the ludicrously haphazard methods that individual organisations now employ to mount their own security checks.
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She smiled as she recalled the ludicrously penitent expression with which Emma had delivered the letter.
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus
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Allegations Senator Allen calls ludicrously false.
CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2006
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Updates, 1/24: James Wolcott: Every year or so critics, audiences, and Academy voters decide to adopt a puppy, and this year the adorable scamp is Little Miss Sunshine, ludicrously nominated for Best Picture.
GreenCine Daily: Oscars. Nominations.
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From the amazing All-Clad pots and pans to the ludicrously expensive cast-iron Le Creuset ovenware, his kitchen accouterments are all top drawer.
Weapons of massdistraction › Easy As Pie
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He was ludicrously cautioned in stoppage time for time-wasting.
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Not So began at a ludicrously fast clip.
Times, Sunday Times
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Huge amounts are imported from other countries — some now ludicrously from the Far East.
Water Bottle Ban on the Horizon : Law is Cool
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By Western standards the prices are ludicrously low.
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It was ludicrously suggested that she would become "the Number One congressional leader," but she didn't bother to show up.
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Private vehicle owners also paid "ludicrously" low licence fees.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Even a moderately soulful vocal from Pharrell can't save this, which literally sounds like SHM are testing out every setting on their ludicrously expensive synths by bashing out the same cretinous non-riff.
This week's new singles
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The program ludicrously lists the cast alphabetically, thereby throwing the first 20 minutes out the window until you have discovered who everyone is.
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Schoppe, the satiric chorus of Jean Paul's romance of Titan, makes his appearance at a certain masked ball, carrying in front of him a glass case, in which the ball is remasked, repeated, and again reflected in a mirror behind, by a set of puppets, ludicrously aping the apery of the courtiers, whose whole life and outward manifestation was but a body-mask mechanically moved with the semblance of real life and action.
A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare
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It may sound ludicrously extravagant but it's really not as expensive as you might think.
The Sun
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This ludicrously overrated copycat director gives a nonperformance to temper the ardor of his most slavish fans.
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It's your great advantage that you don't think you can look like her by ludicrously painting your eyebrows and dolling yourself up like a rock star.
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Myself and my friend stood and marvelled at the incredible array of ludicrously attractive nubile women.
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The coat itself is what is called a jerkin; and as the buttons behind are half-way up his back, it is a matter of course that the tail, which runs rapidly to a point, is ludicrously scanty.
Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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Am I the only one who finds these titles ludicrously nonsensical?
MODIFYING CAREERS WITH “WOMAN” » Sociological Images
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She is a perpetual graduate student writing a thesis on the women in the Iliad, and is ludicrously neurotic in every way.
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Given the ludicrously slow tempo and poor pedaling he imposes throughout, he is not even remotely up to the work's complex technical demands.
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The 1.0 standard - which is ludicrously vague and incomplete, but includes code samples - is roundly criticized, if not ridiculed, by every knowledgeable person who reviews it.
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It calls for the abolition of awards as it argues ludicrously that this will serve the interests of the low-paid and make the country "a richer and fairer society."
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The overall story, with its sometimes ludicrously banal dialogue, is solely to blame for this.
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The state of irritation in which he was kept at this time, brought on a prolonged attack of the gout, and the scenes which often took place were described as ludicrously tragical for the younger officers, who were obliged to approach him officially.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
