あほらしい

あほらしい【阿呆らしい】

＝ばからしい.

●あほらしい話 a ludicrous [ridiculous] business [affair]

・何もしなかった人たちが恩恵を受けて, 苦労した私たちが報われないなんて, そんなあほらしい話はない. It's quite ridiculous that [I've never heard of anything so stupid that] people who did nothing at all should reap all the benefits, when we who did all the work [put in all the effort] get nothing out of it at all.

・盗まれたと大騒ぎしていた宝石は, 金庫にちゃんとしまってあったというあほらしい結末になった. The affair ended farcically [upshot of the affair was farcical], with the jewelry that everyone thought had been stolen being found safely locked away in the safe after all.