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• r  so as to arouse or deserve laughter

• The odds were ludicrously bad, the outcome a foregone conclusion.
• A skit about big bad bullies may seem ludicrously quaint against the backdrop of teen shootings like the one last week in El Cajon, Calif.
• The result is a ludicrously diverse encyclopedia of surprisingly useful and shockingly useless knowledge the latest findings on string theory and evolutionary biology share .

• laughably
• ridiculously
• preposterously

News & Articles

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• 'Rushlights' is a Tarantino rip-off
  'Rushlights' is a ludicrously florid indie noir about a guy, a girl and an inheritance con. If ever a movie signaled that the Quentin Tarantino copycat age of empty-headed wink-wink genre rehashing is still with us, 'Rushlights' is that movie.
  June 21, 2013 - Detroit Free Press
• Movie review: 'Rushlights' is a con job on every level
  Rushlightsis a ludicrously florid indie noir about a guy, a girl and an inheritance con that rarely plays like anything more than an extended re-enactment one might find on a basic cable true-crime show.        
  June 20, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• David Miliband in InTheNews.co.uk
  The count itself is proceeding at a ludicrously slow rate,Mr Miliband added.
• Paddy Ashdown in Telegraph.co.uk
  Paddy Ashdown, the former Liberal Democrat leader, said Britain and its allies had set "ludicrously over-ambitious targets and set ourselves up for failure" in Afghanistan.
• John Simpson in Media Bulletin
  We tend to be freer and more creative than other outfits, but that's not why we endure the low pay and the infuriating bureaucracy and the sometimes ludicrously difficult conditions,writes Simpson. "Let's hope our next chairman will...