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Monday 23rd of November 2009
Traducement
1: a malicious attack [syn:
{defamation}, {calumny},
{obloquy}, {hatchet job}]
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Dictionary definition for the word "absurd"
absurd
2 definitions
1: inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman [syn: unreasonable] 2: completely devoid of wisdom or good sense; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous" [syn: cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous]
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