Adverb
so as to arouse or deserve laughter
Source: WordNetIf a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate. Simone Weil
I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity. William Allingham
To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic. Richard Dawkins
The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. Sol LeWitt
Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification. W. E. B. Du Bois
her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well Source: Internet