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 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 .
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.
6 That's one heck of a derisory statement against the recipient of such largesse.
7 Roma fixes the court, and the family face eviction, eased by derisory compensation.
8 She treats that alternative, though, as derisory . - And I haven't a doubt she's right.
9 Kiera dismissed the impudent girl from her thoughts with a derisory mental sneer.
10 The Government's response to violence against women has been derisory .
11 The fines for traffic offences are derisory and no deterrent.
12 This would be derisory -it would not even pay to rebuild one school.
13 It was disgraceful that the recommendation was so derisory .
14 He pretends to be derisory , but I am convinced that really he is desperately jealous.
15 Opposition member Pascal Haonga said: Paying a derisory per diem is partly responsible for the loss.
16 In short, the independent directors are strongly opposed to the offer which they see as derisory .
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