A situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless.
Incongruous; inviting ridicule.
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Examples for "ridiculous"
Examples for "ridiculous"
1No, not ridiculous; only a simple idea, and great in its simplicity.
2The mountains are in labor, a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.
3We eternally step from the sublime to the ridiculous; we want taste.
4His idealism had made him ridiculous in the eyes of the townsfolk.
5The scene was interrupted in an unexpected and ridiculous manner-thetelephone rang.
1MURRAY: The thought of that happening in my family was completely ludicrous.
2Alas nowadays health and safety and ludicrous red tape has hampered stuntsters.
3Some great saves, some ludicrous decisions coming off his line as well.
4It might seem ludicrous but football is an impatient business these days.
5The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself.
1Simply, as she thought that preposterous idea, it began to take shape.
2Or perhaps I never really believed that the preposterous toy would work.
3But, in recent years, the documentary competition has been almost as preposterous.
4To a gringo such a thing sounds preposterous, impossible, am I right?
5No idea was too preposterous; and not one of them bore fruit.
1There's a great deal more of this idiotic list-making still to come.
2There's a YouTube video already, of course, and the inevitable idiotic comments.
3For example, check out this idiotic exchange on the blog The Intersection.
4I lose it in the vulgarest way-andsay the most idiotic things.
5I say idiotic because, already, science can replicate meat using plant-based proteins.
1He finds laughable the idea that political freedom is a Western construct.
2That is the laughable idea the Turnbull government would have you believe.
3Claude seemed barely real to me: a paper clown, innocuous and laughable.
4North Korea has dismissed the offer of multilateral security guarantees as laughable.
5He could see nothing laughable about the desperate situation in the district.
1A moment later, Sam heard Tricia's whispered voice, crooning sympathetic, nonsensical words.
2They take place in a constant, denatured present and are often nonsensical.
3The failings were unacceptable and the lack of testing nonsensical, she said.
4Text from both the original and wannabe software often makes nonsensical leaps.
5It was a nonsensical plan, like millions of others made that day.
1Those bids were immediately rejected out of hand as derisory and insulting.
2All they offered was a derisory non-naming rights option as an alternative.
3That derisory fee doesn't cut any mustard with old Steve Coppell though.
4He's taken the derisory offer in order to build up his work experience.
5The article says, for instance Sinn Fein might well receive a derisory vote.
1His ex-wife espoused a cockeyed fiscal philosophy that made very expensive sense.
2His cockeyed version of the Story of our Country for one thing.
3In the end he left the post standing cockeyed in the stream.
4We'll put it this way, to start: Something cockeyed is going on.
5Graphic: China's GDP: slower and more slippery Real growth rates are similarly cockeyed.
1Looked at from our point of view the problems were quite absurd.
2This approach and the list of functions was of course completely absurd.
3The position of Germany, the euro zone's main lender, is increasingly absurd.
4Of course Martin had been broken; it was absurd to think otherwise.
5Perhaps the situation was just too absurd for him to take seriously.
6Of course such thinking is absurd, but it happens all the time.
7Barnett has a great way of mixing understatement with completely absurd situations.
8Even five years ago the idea would have been dismissed as absurd.
9Wired: Gervais takes tack-sharp aim at all things absurd -including himself.
10I don't understand how you're asked to believe things that are absurd.
11You need not fear though, Two. But, of course, this was absurd.
12This means Labour should be backing absurd schemes like free schools, presumably.
13Don't be absurd-I'dnever let myself be seen with him in public.
14It's an almost absurd contrast from where we were a year go.
15The idea may seem absurd, yet it is rooted in sound science.
16Molly, I want you to give up this absurd idea right now.
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