absurd suggestion
Frequency: 4.52.1 per million words
A suggestion that is illogical or ridiculous.
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- His proposal to fund the project with our own savings was an absurd suggestion.
- The idea of a mandatory nap time for adults was met with laughter; it was an absurd suggestion.
- Suggesting we could finish the marathon without any training was an absurd suggestion.
- She dismissed his absurd suggestion to paint the house neon green.
- No one took his absurd suggestion seriously.
- The committee found the absurd suggestion to replace all the chairs with beanbags to be impractical.
- When he proposed we all wear tutus to the board meeting, it was clearly an absurd suggestion.
- They rejected the absurd suggestion that aliens were responsible for the power outage.
- The politician's absurd suggestion to solve the budget deficit by printing more money was widely criticized.
- It was an absurd suggestion to think that we could climb Mount Everest in a single day.