absurdly vs beside the point

absurdly

adv
  • In an absurd fashion. 

  • The critics were absurdly extravagant with their praise. 

  • To an extreme degree. 

beside the point

adv
  • Irrelevantly, off-topic. 

adj
  • Irrelevant, moot. 

How often have the words absurdly and beside the point occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )