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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
absurdly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
▪ And price / earnings ratios that seem absurdly high probably are.
▪ The great strain for married couples in modernity is the absurdly high expectation of the marriage bond.
▪ But the Tories will continue to crucify manufacturing industry, in pursuit of an absurdly high parity in the Exchange Rate Mechanism.
low
▪ The only offers Gloria received were absurdly low, and she rejected them indignantly.
▪ In those days, even the highest cutting speeds were almost absurdly low.
▪ The government sets the local price of petrol absurdly low while imposing taxes of over 80% on the company's revenues.
▪ When I say his demand for a raise is absurd, I mean absurdly low.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Breaking the law, i. e., firing people, is absurdly cheap.
▪ In those days, even the highest cutting speeds were almost absurdly low.
▪ It is the absurdly pompous Pons who ostensibly pieces together the scattered evidence of Urim's past.
▪ The experience is unsettling, as if voyeuristic, and also uncanny, like a brief time travel, and absurdly pleasing.
▪ The people back then had been so absurdly vulnerable, prey to disease and deception.
▪ To begin with, the actual battlefield seemed so absurdly small.
▪ Words bubbled in Jay's mind with an absurdly happy smile.
▪ Zampano is trying on his new clothes, absurdly self-involved in his new-found pinstriped elegance.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Absurdly

Absurdly \Ab*surd"ly\, adv. In an absurd manner.

Wiktionary
absurdly

adv. 1 In an absurd fashion. (First attested in the mid 16th century.)(R:SOED5: page=10) 2 To an extreme degree. (First attested in the mid 16th century.)

WordNet
absurdly

adv. in an absurd manner or to an absurd degree; "an absurdly rich young woman"

Usage examples of "absurdly".

But, you see, whilst I hold in my power what would, if necessary, effectually ruin you, and probably Bellamy too--for this country society is absurdly prejudiced--I have little cause for fear.

But they were also smiling and blithesome, and, when they tried to describe to me their rapturous reunion, they were quite rapturously and absurdly inarticulate.

Several dozen absurdly dressed people mingled around a makeshift bar while models in Brinker Bras circulated the perimeter.

Instead of starlight you now get the glow from the Sawgrass Mills mall, a humongous Ford dealership and, absurdly, the crown of a new pro hockey arena.

He slapped Pye, then, and was frightened by discovering how homicidally he wanted to give him one sweet, ringing, murderous clip on the jaw and, lest he do it, he shoved Pye into the closet in his office, locked it, put the key with absurdly sober-looking methodicalness into the top drawer of his desk, and went quietly crazy.

If you misestimate how far away they are, you can easily imagine them going absurdly fast.

I thank you: Blaxland did everything that was kind and hospitable - he desires his best compliments, by the way - and we saw the emu, various kinds of kangaroo, the echidna - good Lord, the echidnal - the small fat grey animal that sleeps high up in gum-trees and that very absurdly claims to be a bear, a great many of the parrot tribe, a nameless monitory lizard, all that we had hoped to see and more, except for the platypus.

Billy Bob joined him, overcoatless, and pointed at an absurdly long white limousine at the curb.

If the bunch of programmers who were ingenious enough to put together an elaborate decision-making package, an absurdly large parser, and an incredible number of graphics images, had still not been able to figure out all the eventualities in their little toy, then it had the capacity to run amok and do things they had never thought about.

But it was almost as if The Warden saw his hand around the mug beneath the water, for he grinned lovingly again and walked away, leaving Prew standing there absurdly with his daredevilish romantic picture of himself rising with the cup in murderous triumph.

He wore baggy pants, a yellow silk bellyband, and an absurdly tiny leather vest dotted with iron studs.

The clerk sat perched on the broad back, looking absurdly small, an elfin broncobuster who could be thrown at any moment.

Instead of being late, as Blix had feared, Condy was absurdly ahead of time the next morning.

The slake-moth, shadowed by the hovering constructs, pounced absurdly on the snaking ends of the pipes.

Gaumont in the lead like the ghost of the Pillsbury Doughboy -- she suddenly and absurdly remembered Paul mentioning the comparison to her.