adverb
definition
In an absurd fashion.
example
Absurdly, he concluded his oration with a song.
definition
To an extreme degree.
example
The critics were absurdly extravagant with their praise.
Examples of absurdly in a Sentence
There's always the chance that the decline has merely made some absurdly overpriced stocks a bit less absurdly overpriced.
The price at which the corn was sold was always moderate; the corn law of Gracchus (123 B.C.) made it absurdly low, and Clodius (58 B.C.) bestowed it gratuitously.
Looking back, the designation appears and sounds absurdly portentous.
He was astonished to see the lane empty save for three men sprawling absurdly on the ground.
Until lately polygamy has been common among all the Malagasy tribes, and divorce effected in an absurdly easy fashion.
What follows, in this Cannes Camera d'Or-winning gem, is an absurdly comic farce in the best Eastern European tradition.
You may talk of desert, or family lineage, or race, or ethnic group, or absurdly of ancient history.
In 1654, observing that the admeasurement and division of the lands forfeited in 1641 and granted to the soldiers had been "most inefficiently and absurdly managed," he entered into a contract to execute a fresh survey, which he completed in thirteen months.'
One of the most elementary forms of discernment is (rather absurdly) called psychometry.
He COULD be getting tired of all the six foot tall, absurdly beautiful starlets who boast all the intellectual depth of mayonnaise.
His uncle, who was old, indolent and absurdly proud, had lived in great seclusion; Retz, on the contrary, gradually acquired a very great influence with the populace of the city.
Dooney & Bourke will seasonally come out with some absurdly endearing fashion such as the Spring 2007 Bumble Bee collection that features colorful chubby bumblebees and large block-letter "D"s set against a white or black background.
Absurdly, young Crusher was used by the bridge staff as sort of an unpaid, uncommissioned intern, allowed to handle a number of bridge duties.
Del.icio.us - This cleverly-named site makes it absurdly easy to bookmark sites you find useful or to search for sites that others deem worthy.
The crusaders found them everywhere in Syria and Palestine, and corrupted their name to Publicani, under which name, often absurdly conjoined with Sadducaei, we find them during the ages following the crusades scattered all over Europe.
Morris, in The Defence of Guinevere, speaks of "gloomy Gawain"; perhaps the most absurdly misleading epithet which could possibly have been applied to the "gay, gratious, and gude" knight of early English tradition.
But the reason for this was not, as Herr Max Hecker rather absurdly suggests, Wolfgang's jealousy of his grandfather's oppressive fame, but one far more simple and natural.
The danger, of course, was absurdly exaggerated; as indeed was proved by the very popularity of the repressive measures to which the government thought it necessary to resort, and which gave to the vapourings of a few knots of agitators the dignity of a widespread conspiracy for the overthrow of the constitution.
On these grounds the adversaries of Demosthenes, in after-days, used absurdly to taunt him with a traitorous or barbarian ancestry.
Its interest lies, not in its doctrines, which have often been absurdly over-estimated (particularly among Christians), but in its contribution to the study of human thought.
Spengel, indeed, tries to bring the latest date in the book down to 330; but it is by absurdly supposing that the author could not have got the commonplace, " one ought to criticize not bitterly but gently," except from Demosthenes, De Corona (§ 265).
Barlowe, in his treatise Magnetical Advertisements, printed in 1616 (p. 66), complains that "the Compasse needle, being the most admirable and usefull instrument of the whole world, is both amongst ours and other nations for the most part, so bungerly and absurdly contrived, as nothing more."
Of all these men Prince Andrew sympathized most with Pfuel, angry, determined, and absurdly self-confident as he was.
It is odd that this irregular poem, with its copious and varied music, its splendid sweep of emotion, its unfailing richness of texture - this poem in which Tennyson rises to heights of human sympathy and intuition which he reached nowhere else, should have been received with bitter hostility, have been styled "the dead level of prose run mad," and have been reproved more absurdly still for its "rampant and rabid bloodthirstiness of soul."
His own flashlight was jammed in his pocket, pointing absurdly upward.