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ridiculous English

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ridiculous

Describes something that deserves ridicule, is foolish or absurd Adam's mohawk is ridiculous.

ridiculous

(= silly) inspiring scornful pity how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years — Dashiell Hammett (= absurd, cockeyed, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous) incongruous;inviting ridicule the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework that's a cockeyed idea ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer a contribution so small as to be laughable it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous (= farcical, ludicrous) broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce the wild farcical exuberance of a clown ludicrous green hair

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Simple sentences

You look ridiculous.
I know you think this is ridiculous.
His story was too ridiculous for anyone to believe.
In a word, it's ridiculous.
Stop it. You're being ridiculous.
Such a ridiculous superstition no longer exists.
What a ridiculous opinion that is!
He keeps a straight face while telling a ridiculous story.
She dresses so outrageously; it looks completely ridiculous!
Don't be ridiculous!
It would be ridiculous to spend all their money.
That's ridiculous.
That's ridiculous!
Ridiculous!
Tom thinks that's ridiculous.
It's not silly, but it's ridiculous.
Don't be ridiculous! We are not descended from apes, we only have a common ancestor.
It's getting ridiculous.

Movie subtitles

Don't be ridiculous!
You traveled from your sparkling lovely paradise in Ootah to tell ridiculous stories to people less fortunate to make fun of them!
Who can still do the job. - Ridiculous.
Well, that's ridiculous.
Screw this, it's ridiculous.
You're ridiculous.
No, no, no. That's ridiculous.
Oh, and that ridiculous toupee.
You all look ridiculous, and I want you out of my house.
Rolling around with wheels on your feet, bloody ridiculous.
Do you realize how ridiculous you sound?
Come on, Dad, don't be ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous!
What a ridiculous sentiment. Do you mean to say that this cyborg is more powerful than me? Uhh!
Ridiculous! I don't see how that's ridiculous.
That's ridiculous! -I get it now! You arranged for her to make that scene during our act.
Ridiculous.
Well, if the Head hadn't been there. - It's just ridiculous!
Mother, your attitude's perfectly ridiculous.
That's ridiculous.
But that's ridiculous.
Ridiculous?
It's too ridiculous.
Oh, i never heard of anything so ridiculous. We've been here for all these years.
It's gonna take me at least a week to recover, so forget it, don't be ridiculous.
I'm not being ridiculous, I'm trying to be normal.
Why, the whole thing is ridiculous.
Ridiculous!
Don't be ridiculous, sis.
That's a ridiculous lie.
I thought Martini's singing was adequate, but to call him a great singer. ridiculous.
It's absolutely ridiculous, and I don't believe it.
Nobody looking at you would think for a moment you were Madame Topaze. It's ridiculous.

News and current affairs

So there was nothing to stop these social epidemics from attaining ridiculous proportions.
This response to homegrown problems plays well with voters, but it is ridiculous and ignorant, especially since the US has been depending on China to help finance the fiscal deficits.
To force Russia to increase energy prices to EU levels is as ridiculous as making China sell rice to its people at world prices.
Now the idea of a political community in any form, of a demos offering all its citizens equality of opportunity, is patently ridiculous.
This is why the calculations that some Russian strategists make - ie, that Russia will be able to forge a sort of all-European-coalition against America over NMD - are patently ridiculous.
The surrealist essence of the rebellion was somehow symbolized by Gilles Caron's famous photograph, in which an insolent smile at a riot policeman subverts the frozen, established order to the point of making it ridiculous.
Of course, this another ridiculous fabrication from the same man who famously said that the Bosnian Muslims had shelled their own villages in order to lure NATO into the war.
Freer lending meant that people were freer to bid up prices of homes to ridiculous levels.
The claim that the World Bank needs an American president to ensure that the US keeps donating money is ridiculous.
Obviously, that is a ridiculous metric.
Though Netanyahu's shrill words still have an attentive audience in the US, most of Europe regards his position as being only a little short of ridiculous.
And it would be an equally ridiculous thing to say now, too.
Not only that - I have a feeling that I would have looked ridiculous if I had written or declared that I was European and felt European; or, in fact, if I professed explicitly a European orientation.
These two events have rendered Putin's regime not only illegitimate, but also ridiculous.
But this could change as dollars become hard to resist and Cubans use them to cut through ridiculous bureaucratic hurdles.
It sounds ridiculous, but there is another, often overlooked, aspect to the dispute: by behaving as it has, Greece is demonstrating a lack of confidence in its NATO partners.

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