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Meanings of idiotic in английском
Incongruous; inviting ridicule.
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Examples for "ridiculous"
Examples for "ridiculous"
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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.
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MURRAY: The thought of that happening in my family was completely ludicrous.
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Alas nowadays health and safety and ludicrous red tape has hampered stuntsters.
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Some great saves, some ludicrous decisions coming off his line as well.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The article says, for instance Sinn Fein might well receive a derisory vote.
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His ex-wife espoused a cockeyed fiscal philosophy that made very expensive sense.
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His cockeyed version of the Story of our Country for one thing.
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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.
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Graphic: China's GDP: slower and more slippery Real growth rates are similarly cockeyed.
Usage of idiotic in английском
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There's a great deal more of this idiotic list-making still to come.
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There's a YouTube video already, of course, and the inevitable idiotic comments.
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For example, check out this idiotic exchange on the blog The Intersection.
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I lose it in the vulgarest way-andsay the most idiotic things.
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I say idiotic because, already, science can replicate meat using plant-based proteins.
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I always write really idiotic things that nobody would want to publish.
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The question seemed to Gyp idiotic; and suddenly she felt quite cool.
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You can't dwell, be overprotective of your words, thin-skinned about idiotic comments.
9
It is utterly idiotic, you know, staying in town in this weather.
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Sarah thought it was idiotic, and Casimir couldn't understand it at all.
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The theatre was given over to burlesques of the most idiotic description.
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The blacksmith burst into a roar of laughter at the idiotic speech.
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And she found herself for no reason grinning a large idiotic grin.
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Since you're acting idiotic, I'll presume you need things explained to you.
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Nothing short of softening of the brain could explain such idiotic forgetfulness.
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Do you want me to comment on some idiotic thing like that?
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