Quality of a character, situation or work.
1 We eternally step from the sublime to the ridiculous ; we want taste.
2 She was, evidently, in no mood for the enjoyment of the ridiculous .
3 SOCRATES: From these considerations learn to know the nature of the ridiculous .
4 Gyp stood trembling-theaction had not stirred her sense of the ridiculous .
5 Even his father saw the ridiculous figure he cut, and growled out:
6 Shuffles pronounced the ridiculous obligation again, and Wilton repeated it after him.
7 She had, indeed, abolished most of the ridiculous etiquette of the court.
8 Nobody had such a keen sense of the ridiculous as his mother.
9 He had lost his nose but not his sense of the ridiculous .
10 A Lion seeing a Poodle fell into laughter at the ridiculous spectacle.
11 This was the ridiculous song they kept up all day without intermission.
12 But he will be asked questions- from the legitimate to the ridiculous .
13 Of course, like many of my notions, it bordered on the ridiculous .
14 She perceives the ridiculous ; what I behold is the specificity of fashion.
15 It has that light whimsical tone with a bit of the ridiculous .
16 Not that I would go to the ridiculous extreme of formal marriage.
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