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Example sentences for "ludicrousness"

Lexicographically close words:
lucus; lud; ludere; ludicrous; ludicrously; ludis; ludit; ludos; ludovicianus; ludship
  1. If the Weight and Solidity of his Argument don't grieve the Clergy, I am in no Pain for the Levity and Ludicrousness of it.

  2. He did not fear the ludicrousness of this now; all that he feared was, that the courage to kill himself would fail him.

  3. There was one alone, among all his friends, who loved him enough not to see the ludicrousness of his position; one alone generous enough not to torture him with raillery; it was Sauvresy.

  4. In all its mingled effect, the poignancy of its emotion, the ludicrousness of its coincidences, the situation was more than Peggy Ryle could bear.

  5. A sudden sense of ludicrousness overcame Airey; he lay back in the cab and laughed.

  6. But only the ludicrousness of the discovery seemed paramount to his weakened faculties.

  7. She turned and fled, happily for her sentiment, not hearing the feeble laugh that followed, as Dunn, in sheer imbecility, again referred to the extravagant ludicrousness of the situation.

  8. I yet could not forbear laughing at the ludicrousness of my position and the whole scene.

  9. Mrs. Thornton had quite enough of natural humour to make her feel the ludicrousness of the position in which she was left.

  10. My description can give you but a poor idea of the ludicrousness of the thing.

  11. The intense ludicrousness of the affair now seemed, for the first time, to take full possession of the perceptive faculties of my new acquaintance.

  12. The very ludicrousness of his situation saved him.

  13. You vas going to shoot me," said Carl, with an honest laugh at the ludicrousness of the idea.

  14. I exclaimed, with an overwhelming sense of the ludicrousness of the situation: "How dared you come through the room where they were all sitting and follow me out here!

  15. She smothered the Marquess's protests about the awkwardness, the ludicrousness of such a flight.

  16. The ludicrousness of the situation added the ultimate torment.

  17. Swift was soon aware of the ludicrousness of his experiment, though he never forgave Cousin Dryden for being aware of it also, and the recoil in a nature so intense as his was sudden and violent.

  18. For a moment the stranger's face relaxed into a broad smile at the ludicrousness of the situation.

  19. For an instant the ludicrousness of the affair struck both young men, convulsing them with laughter to such an extent that the chair came near being pulled apart and Eloise dropped to the ground.

  20. The look of embarrassment on Captain Forest's face, together with the ludicrousness of the situation, caused Bessie to burst into a sudden fit of laughter into which Blanch, in spite of herself, was irresistibly drawn.

  21. Then, as the ludicrousness of the situation came over her, she burst into fit after fit of laughter until the tears rolled down her cheeks.

  22. Presently being under the Firebrand's lee quarter, we lowered down the boat and went on board, where, for the first time, the extreme ludicrousness of my appearance and following flashed on me.

  23. I believe, under Providence, that the ludicrousness of this attack saved us from being bayoneted on the spot.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ludicrousness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absurdity; eccentricity; foolishness; hilarity; humor; incongruity; nonsense; stupidity