Incongruous; inviting ridicule.
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Examples for "ridiculous "
Examples for "ridiculous "
1 No, not ridiculous ; only a simple idea, and great in its simplicity.
2 The mountains are in labor, a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.
3 We eternally step from the sublime to the ridiculous ; we want taste.
4 His idealism had made him ridiculous in the eyes of the townsfolk.
5 The scene was interrupted in an unexpected and ridiculous manner-thetelephone rang.
1 Looked at from our point of view the problems were quite absurd .
2 This approach and the list of functions was of course completely absurd .
3 The position of Germany, the euro zone's main lender, is increasingly absurd .
4 Of course Martin had been broken; it was absurd to think otherwise.
5 Perhaps the situation was just too absurd for him to take seriously.
1 MURRAY: The thought of that happening in my family was completely ludicrous .
2 Alas nowadays health and safety and ludicrous red tape has hampered stuntsters.
3 Some great saves, some ludicrous decisions coming off his line as well.
4 It might seem ludicrous but football is an impatient business these days.
5 The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself.
1 Simply, as she thought that preposterous idea, it began to take shape.
2 Or perhaps I never really believed that the preposterous toy would work.
3 But, in recent years, the documentary competition has been almost as preposterous .
4 To a gringo such a thing sounds preposterous , impossible, am I right?
5 No idea was too preposterous ; and not one of them bore fruit.
1 There's a great deal more of this idiotic list-making still to come.
2 There's a YouTube video already, of course, and the inevitable idiotic comments.
3 For example, check out this idiotic exchange on the blog The Intersection.
4 I lose it in the vulgarest way-andsay the most idiotic things.
5 I say idiotic because, already, science can replicate meat using plant-based proteins.
1 He finds laughable the idea that political freedom is a Western construct.
2 That is the laughable idea the Turnbull government would have you believe.
3 Claude seemed barely real to me: a paper clown, innocuous and laughable .
4 North Korea has dismissed the offer of multilateral security guarantees as laughable .
5 He could see nothing laughable about the desperate situation in the district.
1 A moment later, Sam heard Tricia's whispered voice, crooning sympathetic, nonsensical words.
2 They take place in a constant, denatured present and are often nonsensical .
3 The failings were unacceptable and the lack of testing nonsensical , she said.
4 Text from both the original and wannabe software often makes nonsensical leaps.
5 It was a nonsensical plan, like millions of others made that day.
1 Those bids were immediately rejected out of hand as derisory and insulting.
2 All they offered was a derisory non-naming rights option as an alternative.
3 That derisory fee doesn't cut any mustard with old Steve Coppell though.
4 He's taken the derisory offer in order to build up his work experience.
5 The article says, for instance Sinn Fein might well receive a derisory vote.
Turned or twisted toward one side.
1 His ex-wife espoused a cockeyed fiscal philosophy that made very expensive sense.
2 His cockeyed version of the Story of our Country for one thing.
3 In the end he left the post standing cockeyed in the stream.
4 We'll put it this way, to start: Something cockeyed is going on.
5 Graphic: China's GDP: slower and more slippery Real growth rates are similarly cockeyed .
6 She fixed a flag that had gone cockeyed and looked at her watch.
7 The windows were uneven, giving the house a rather cockeyed look.
8 It came out a bit cockeyed , that smile, a little forced.
9 Yet, it was that cockeyed facial expression that eventually made him a star.
10 She put the hat on again, at a slightly cockeyed angle.
11 He felt the hatch lift an inch, then catch, cockeyed in its slot.
12 You turned my head all cockeyed more than twenty years ago.
13 That's a cockeyed way of looking at the agency's budget, Tether tells Danger Room.
14 It seems everything has become a little cockeyed , and a great deal more impersonal.
15 Police weren't convinced and made all sorts of cockeyed theories.
16 Quinn smoothed a label, a bit cockeyed , onto a box.
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