Talk:priceless

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Requested Joel Barlow citation[edit]

I searched for "priceless" in Barlow's works and found a passage that I have now placed at ludibrious (since it uses that word too); but is it the one? It also talks about "treasure", something that is valuable, so I'm not sure. Equinox 15:35, 31 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

I've removed this request as I have also found only one citation among Barlow's works (in his voluminous Columbiad[1]), and the sense in this context seems very unlikely to be "of no value": "the priceless page" is clearly meant to parallel "the treasure of an age" in the following line. (Aabull2016 (talk) 19:56, 4 December 2018 (UTC))Reply

hilarious (informal)[edit]

Extremely comic and amusing (informal) a priceless comment (vs. rich hard to believe because ridiculous (informal), That's rich, coming from her! ) --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:40, 10 August 2021 (UTC)Reply