The men won't even honor such an absurd notion with discussion.

You're beginning to invent absurd notions in order to justify what you want to believe.

"I cannot imagine what put that absurd notion in your head," she finally said.

Things go wrong, generally, because men have such absurd and impossible notions about possession.

"And get that absurd notion out of your head."

She had the absurd notion that he was laughing at her.

On the face of it, it seemed an absurd notion.

Or the absurd notion that I would want to go to bed with you?

He would think absurd the notion that he should not.