RIDICULOUS in a Sentence
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175 example sentences for RIDICULOUS, such as:
1. Everything was ridiculous, quite true.
2. They ate and drank a ridiculous amount.
3. From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
4. A faintly comic figure, he fears ridicule above all else.
5. There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
2. They ate and drank a ridiculous amount.
3. From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
4. A faintly comic figure, he fears ridicule above all else.
5. There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Meanings and Examples of RIDICULOUS
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ridiculous
a. inspiring scornful pity
a. incongruous;inviting ridicule
Classic Sentence: (149 in 10 pages)
1 The human beings could not contain their rage when they heard this song, though they pretended to think it merely ridiculous.
2 I acknowledge to this ridiculous idiosyncrasy, as a reason why I would give them a little more play.
3 It would make a man so ridiculous, after going in for these fellows, to back out in such an incomprehensible way.
4 I must not only regard myself as being in a very ridiculous position, but as being vanquished at all points.
5 Fathers were ridiculous: his own obstinate one supremely so.
6 And governments were ridiculous: our own wait-and-see sort especially so.
7 And armies were ridiculous, and old buffers of generals altogether, the red-faced Kitchener supremely.
8 Even the war was ridiculous, though it did kill rather a lot of people.
9 In fact everything was a little ridiculous, or very ridiculous: certainly everything connected with authority, whether it were in the army or the government or the universities, was ridiculous to a degree.
10 And as far as the governing class made any pretensions to govern, they were ridiculous too.
11 Everything was ridiculous, quite true.
12 But when it came too close and oneself became ridiculous too.
13 To him the authorities were ridiculous ab ovo, not because of toffee or Tommies.
14 And the authorities felt ridiculous, and behaved in a rather ridiculous fashion, and it was all a mad hatter's tea-party for a while.
15 And yet he knew that this too, in the eyes of the vast seething world, was ridiculous.
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 Marilyn Monroe: Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
2 These ridiculous rules and regulations should have been done away with years ago.
3 They ate and drank a ridiculous amount.
4 There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
5 From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
6 The great becomes ridiculous is only a step, but one more step, funny and will become great.
7 What we mock is his using that as a catchall excuse for any personal failing or ridiculous policy proposal.
8 'Yes, but I grow at a reasonable pace,' said the Dormouse: 'not in that ridiculous fashion.'
9 After dreaming up an idea for a start-up so ridiculous that no one would believe it, Bloch and Schmittling set out to entice people to buy in.
10 The audience saw through his attempts to equivocate on the subject under discussion and ridiculed his remarks.
11 The contentious gentleman in the bar ridiculed anything anyone said.
12 I was laughed at, ridiculed, and generally called a crank for writing that article, however, each and every word have become true.
13 Suspecting no conspiracies against him, Caesar gently ridiculed his wife's foreboding about the Ides of March.
14 It is a deeply chauvinist community where the few women who have jobs are ridiculed.
15 A faintly comic figure, he fears ridicule above all else.