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Definition of Ludicrously
1. Adverb. So as to arouse or deserve laughter. "Her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well"
Definition of Ludicrously
1. Adverb. In a ludicrous manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ludicrously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ludicrously
Literary usage of Ludicrously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Autobiography of an Actress; Or, Eight Years on the Stage by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1854)
"The Prevalence of Bronchitis amongst Actors ludicrously exhibited at Rehearsal.
— Broadway Theatre. — A painful Engagement. — Baltimore. ..."
2. Natural History of Man: Being an Account of the Manners and Customs of the by John George Wood (1874)
"Their greatest luxury is a feast on boiled mutton, and the whole process of
cooking and serving is almost ludicrously simple. The body of the sheep is cut ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"Neatness, conjoined with simplicity, ibid. DOST UP, part. pa. Decked, dressed,
sprucely. It ¡a used ludicrously by Kennedy ..."
4. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1873)
"... ley kept up a decent show of sorrow during the first half of the journey, when
a word ludicrously mispronounced by the Comtesse d'Artois raised ..."
5. At Home in Fijiby Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1817)
"Hoo'a ; (ludicrously) gnoo'too hoo'a. Luff (to keep close to the wind). Tow a'U.
Lug (to pull along with violence). ..."
6. History of France: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Jules Michelet, G. H. Smith (1851)
"They were themselves formidable and indefatigable talkers, highly figurative in
their speech, pompons and ludicrously grave with their guttural tones,! ..."
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