It was the correct response, but it sounded faintly absurd even to him.

He had managed to make him feel faintly absurd.

I guessed it was because everyone felt faintly absurd.

Unusually for a young American actress, Kendrick finds talking about herself faintly absurd.

There are some interesting visual moments but they add up to little, and the ending is a faintly absurd cop-out.

As a result the villainy all sounds faintly absurd.

Left without a strong advocate in cabinet, the Department's budgets were trimmed, and the Vision became a faintly absurd political clich6.

To the modern eye, he looks effete, faintly absurd, like a bantamweight dandy with attitude.

The bathrobe and hair made her look faintly absurd when she crossed the backyard under an umbrella.

Soundless, his display looked faintly absurd and undoubtedly suicidal.