How To Use Ridiculous In A Sentence
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It's not because I'm worried about what they might think, or anything ridiculous like that, it's because in a lot of cases this material was intended for me alone - either through an oral tradition or as a gnostic revelation from the spirits.
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We did that a couple of Saturdays ago when we put on the most ridiculously illogical bet.
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Do I look ridiculous in this hat?
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Ridiculous salaries and back-scratching seems to have been the order of the day.
The Sun
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Having worked himself into this ridiculous kind of phrensy, which lasted, perhaps, from twenty to thirty seconds, he suddenly discontinued it, and suffered his features to relax into their natural form; but the motion of his head seemed to have so stupified him, as indeed it well might, that there remained an unusual vacancy and a drowsy stare upon his countenance for some time afterward.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
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Not sure what a 'twofer' is, but if what you mean is that the '2050' scenario is ridiculous, then you're way into denial and every bit as susceptible to the blinkers of 'You Know You Are Right' as those you ridicule.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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The mutual back-scratching by which executive pay is currently set is ridiculous, and is an immense waste of the resources of public companies that ridiculously over-pay the back-scratchers ..
'Say on pay' moves full speed ahead
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Rational Review
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The film starts off realistically and then develops into a ridiculous fantasy.
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It has never been heard of in Spain; and in France, the continuator of de Thou is the only one who has given any credit to these vague and ridiculous suspicions.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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If feminism is routinely placed first it sets up womanism as a ridiculous offshoot.
Archive 2009-03-01
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These are ridiculous enough on their own without resorting to ageism or sizeism.
Times, Sunday Times
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They both nod with these ridiculously cheesy smiles.
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Deconstruct him: he isn't worth it; deconstruct yourself: your behaviour is ridiculous.
THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE
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No need to realize that if you have some good solid cooking skills, you don't *need* her ridiculous show.
Rachel Ray - A Legend or a Hype?
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It is actually something of a challenge to locate sentences in The Structure of Evolutionary Theory that are not unwieldy, ridiculously self-referential, and grotesquely polysyllabic.
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At first this sounds ridiculous, indeed unserious.
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He was rather plump, and was wearing a ridiculous hat.
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If you intend to change gauges and/or tunings regularly, try to avoid ridiculous extremes.
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A false note in the proceedings, a mismove on the part of Valmond, would easily have made the thing ridiculous; but even to
When Valmond Came to Pontiac, Complete
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The book is ridiculously baggy and poorly paced: my paperback is practically cuboidal but in its 700 words pages big events are often compressed whilst minor ones are leisurely pondered.
Revelation, Redemption and Absolution
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She was being ridiculous, isolating him like this, all because of one teensy tiny stupid little question that he wished he'd never asked!
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Back in NoMa, Bruce Tallerman , a writer who is a 12-year resident, called the name "ridiculous.
Neighborhood Newspeak
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It just seems as if Mother Earth had become young again, and was tossing her babies up to the summer sky, and the wind played hide-and-seek, or peep-bo, or some other ridiculous game, with them, and made the summer babies as glad and as mischievous as himself.
My War Experiences in Two Continents
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The irritating lack of clarity about who holds what amount of debt has led to some ridiculous underpricing of risk.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Palomar is a quester after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous.
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The amount of packaging in which many toys arrive is aggravating and ridiculous.
» Such a Cute Little Carbon Emitter Strocel.com
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During this time Louis XIV was in power and royalty lived in ridiculous comforts while French commoners starved.
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Frank Rossitano (Judah Friedlander): Just before the show begins, neglects to put on one of his ridiculous trucker caps and accidentally slaps some deely boppers on his head instead.
'30 Rock' live: What could possibly go wrong?
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Too many clubs seem to be spending ridiculous amounts based on projected incomes which are not just unrealistic but beyond the realms of fantasy.
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It's a totally ridiculous, completely unsexy word.
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For an album so reflective of a certain musical style and sound, The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele manages to contemporise itself without sounding ridiculous.
Drowned In Sound // Feed
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For me to think I'm any better than a homeless person on the street is ridiculous.
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What is it with this ridiculous fashion at the moment for wearing loose sandals or flip-flops?
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I. ii.155 (14,6) [deck'd the sea] _To deck the sea_, if explained, to honour, adorn, or dignify, is indeed ridiculous, but the original import of the verb _deck_ is, _to cover_; so in some parts they yet say _deck the table_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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The “right to privacy” meme, of course, is a strawman – by attaching some invented notion of “privacy” to the surgical process of electively vacuuming out a developing human life in pieces from the womb, the left thinks they make abortion a “right” – wholly and completely ridiculous.
Think Progress » Samuel Alito’s America
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For one you don't have to wear ridiculous clothes and be cliquey.
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What's instructive is to look at how the Obama campaign responded: challenge the facticity and factiousness of the ACORN story -- and get it explained about how ridiculous it is, and let the pictures of the McCain/Palin supporters diffuse themselves across the i-net.
Colin Powell Endorses Obama
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It is ridiculous to suggest we are having a romance.
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It would be ridiculous to expect such a circus to settle major public issues.
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To suggest - as some critics have - that the memoir owes its power to "Proustian" overtones is ridiculous.
Books, Inq. — The Epilogue
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The ridiculous overacting left the bureaucrat completely unsuspicious.
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You only consider the hounds as a fleeting object at which to ride; the fox as a necessary evil, without which all this 'rasping' and 'bruising' and 'cutting down,' as you call it in your ridiculous jargon, cannot be attained.
Kate Coventry An Autobiography
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The force has urged the public not to dial 999 for "ridiculous or barmpot" reasons.
TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
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They call for a relationship with the centre which is rational and transparent; they make the flummery of a monarch which claims to be the glue which sticks us together all the more ridiculous.
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In my resultant article I actually compared Montreal to an afternoon soap opera - a punchy, passionate, sentimental place full of ridiculous arguments and beautiful women.
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But if the commentor is right, it would be an even more ridiculous point to make - pure smear, without an ounce of journalistic content.
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That said, the baby back pork ribs with demi glace and honey-soy sauce were fan-freakin-tastic, as was the Cordero, a ridiculously tender lamb foreshank, braised in rioja red wine, orange zest, and coriander.
SFist
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Because this movie is more than just a parody of that series, and it's also ridiculously funny.
The Sun
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He excoriates the McSweeney's crowd and "the ridiculous dithering of John Barth ... [and] the reductive cardboard constructions of Donald Barthelme," and would excise from the modern canon "nearly all of Gaddis, Pynchon, DeLillo," and — while he's at it — "the diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses ... the incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of late Nabokov.
New & Noteworthy
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Their wonderful stories did not need embellishment with ridiculous rumour or vile gossip.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such were the rimes of _Skelton_ (vsurping the name of a Poet Laureat) being in deede but a rude rayling rimer & all his doings ridiculous, he vsed both short distaunces and short measures pleasing onely the popular eare: in our courtly maker we banish them vtterly.
The Arte of English Poesie
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After due consideration she decided to go from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Interrupting an opera on television for a pet-food commercial is going from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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We may note on the other hand that a rubric in the official "Rituale Romanum" enjoins that the priest ought to see that unbecoming or ridiculous names of deities or of godless pagans are not given in baptism (curet ne obscoena, fabulosa aut ridicula vel inanium deorum vel impiorum ethnicorum hominum nomina imponantur).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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I fully expect a movie double feature, ridiculous amount of Chinese food and a more creative dessert than tiramisu or birthday cake.
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We are the laughing stock of Europe with our ridiculously high prices for everything and our stupid infantile government.
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Your lively imagination will suggest other ridiculous scenarios that may work better for you.
The Guide to Greatness in Sales
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It's a sweet, if slightly ridiculous idea, to imagine that a hard-drinking, violent, thick-skulled lout of a father might sit patiently in a class of pashmina-wrapped social workers and listen to a lecture about quality time.
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I'm glad that ridiculous plan has finally been laid to rest.
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They do not grasp the broad situation and spend their time magnifying ridiculous details.
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It's ridiculous and it is making me depressed and miserable.
The Sun
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The first model to tell us ‘this whole no-carb thing is ridiculous’ downs three meals and three snacks a day, including lox on a bagel and eggs in the morning and steak or chicken at night.
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Sorry, but pretending that any American auto manufacturer is healthy is delusional, stupid and ridiculous.
Think Progress » Arizona legislature demands immigrants and President of the United States verify their status.
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Men had these funny bobbed hairstyles, so we had to find a way for people not to look ridiculous.
Times, Sunday Times
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And with a languid snap of his heels, he was off, his curled hair swaying ridiculously on his head.
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There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I don't mind being the one who has to call the plumber, and sit with the plumber, and go scouting for soap dispensers for the kitchen to replace the ridiculous airgap that they make you put it, but I don't like everyone being crabby at me about the whole thing.
Readersguide Diary Entry
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Secondly, try to see how ridiculous you and everybody else always are; and, thirdly, which is much the most important, don't think about yourself.
Michael
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Until this ridiculous overemphasis on sprinting and short course competition is reversed, the United States is going to remain stuck on a long downhill slide in competing with the rest of the world.
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And, while I'm at it, I think that it's ridiculous to believe in transubstantiation, that considering the Bible to be the literal word of God reduces that supposedly omnipotent being to a muddle-headed maniac and that the Hindu caste system and Roman Catholic rules against contraception could have been invented by Satan.
If Britain decides to ban the burqa I might just start wearing one
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The beau monde even dictates style to the overfed Prince of Wales, ridiculous in his pantaloons, and to soignée duchesses, who trade in their silks and satins for cotton, the ‘poor stuff’ of the French Revolution.
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I think it is a ridiculous and pointless stunt that isn't even newsworthy.
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At the same time some large corporations are getting away with paying no tax, or ridiculously low tax.
The Sun
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Her voice was a ridiculous parody of pre-war royal.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Pogradec we had a gaby party which was basically everyone dressing up in the most ridiculous outfits ever but we had a blast.
Archive 2008-07-01
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The play takes the audience back to 1898 through presentations of wild west acts, musical extravaganzas, ridiculous comedy, a touch of burlesque and boxing - all of which actually took place in the Palace Grand Theatre.
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Tarus "jogs" 10k race in record time, four minutes faster than the rest. 32:01 which is effectively a course record and ridiculously fast for a jog the boy's best this year is 30:58, 3% better, so he may be on 97% effort, he has a proper race tomorrow, so I'm concerned;
Archive 2007-06-10
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Jeanne Tripplehorn pairs with Dylan McDermott in this comedy about a ridiculous romantic and an utter realist brought together by destiny.
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Much alcohol was consumed, yet I have a ridiculously high alcohol tolerance so remained very sober.
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The GOP Smear that Obama is eltist is frankly ridiculous Barack & Michelle both came from firmly blue collar backgrounds, Michelle's dad was a dustmen for goodness sake.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
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He has passed sentence of condemnation upon Lycidas, and has taken occasion, from that charming poem, to expose and ridicule (what is indeed ridiculous enough) the childish prattlement of pastoral compositions, as if Lycidas was the prototype and pattern of them all.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II
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Even if it's for the other Democrat nominee ... this idea that ANY republican candidate will suffice is getting ridiculous!
A cage match in Connecticut
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Plotz deftly neuters Graham's ridiculous eugenics, putting his noxious opinions in their historical context of the KKK and the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s.
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Given the climate and the other equally ridiculous laws being proposed to stifle innovation, my hopes aren't very high.
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It would be so penny-wise, pound-foolish it would be ridiculous, said the banker.
White House Calling The Shots On GM IPO: Reuters
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Is it just me or are others finding this practice ridiculous and just a little shady?
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She was ridiculously dressed in a white nurse-like style dress with bubblegum pink lapels, pockets, and cuffs.
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It has occasionally purchased this labor through limited immigration, which it modulates and controls, often in ridiculous ways.
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I quote from Mr Edmund Gosse in the Sunday Times of May 30th, 1920: "Unless something is done to stem this flood of poetastry the art of verse will become not merely superfluous, but ridiculous.
The Second-Order Mind
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It's ridiculous for owners of these dangerous beasts to claim they are as gentle as lambs.
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The comparison is ridiculous, and at the moment he couldn't lace Hall's boots.
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The idea that because liberals are in favor of sexual liberty they must therefore believe that anyone even ought to be promiscuous is ridiculous.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?”
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This is, of course, a ridiculous contradiction and probably would qualify as a first-class oxymoron.
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The other Indians were displeased at the conduct of the Natchez, imagining they had forwarded the term agreed on, in order to make them ridiculous, and proposed to take vengeance the first opportunity, not knowing the true cause of the precipitation of the Natchez.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
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As it is, people download warez versions of games because the prices are ridiculous.
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If you think Miller, Smith and Applewhite were unbalanced, how about the ridiculous apocalyptical predictions of doom in 1999 in the approach of the 21st century, when computer glitches were supposed to throw mankind into chaos?
Jeff Schweitzer: The End Is Not Nigh: Take a Deep Breath and Move On
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It seemed ridiculous that anyone could not clean a carburettor.
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Grip-n-Grin tip #12: Always remember to wet the fish BEFORE setting the shot or your subject will look ridiculous while you are getting a wet rag from the break room.
Write the Caption, Win a Prize...
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In his last two films (Caro Diaro and Aprile) he’s basically played himself, establishing a neat line in absurdist self-mockery and thoughtful observation, looking ridiculous on a moped while obsessing about “good-bad” Hollywood movies and musing on life and politics.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
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The prince sat in his ridiculous outfit strumming a lute that desperately needed to be tuned.
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The title character, with a name that recalls the famous telescope, is a quester after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous.
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The great becomes ridiculous is only a step, but one more step, funny and will become great.
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There, it has come to seem ridiculously blithe, ignoring the block that the political crisis puts on all but rudimentary commercial life.
Times, Sunday Times
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This World Cup started as it was to end - with a risible penalty from a ridiculously coiffured superstar.
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Each slice was exactly 6mm thick and I cut it with a marquetry saw before deciding this was ridiculous, and that I should be using my teeth.
How we made: Vicken Parsons and Antony Gormley on Bed
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since it's your duty to ostracize and bake, _ostracize_ and _bake_, and be done with your ridiculous fancies.
The Earth Trembled
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WHAT a ridiculous farce our politicians have inflicted on themselves over pay.
The Sun
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It's ridiculous - we have a tiny disagreement and you blow the whole thing out of proportion!
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The concept of stamp duty is utterly ridiculous.
Times, Sunday Times
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He seemed to need to show us how strong and disciplinarian he could be and was so aggressive sometimes it was just ridiculous.
The Sun
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It's ridiculous to play it cool if someone you're mad about is mad about you too.
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The mixture was ridiculously sloppy, so I added more flour and breadcrumbs and then tried to mould the mixture around the layer of mince.
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To act like the worlds of politics and sport are completely separated and that there is no interaction between them at all is wrong-headed and ridiculous.
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The story of Jaddus would be entitled to our respect — it would be beyond the reach of animadversion — were even any shadow of it to be found in the sacred writings; but as they do not make the slightest mention of it, we are quite at liberty to see that it is ridiculous.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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My perception is that many people feel that the adoption process in this country is ridiculously ponderous if not downright laughable.
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After all, this is a man so potty and unfathomably wealthy that he can walk into a shop stocking ghastly, ugly, ridiculously pricy ornaments and already own most of them.
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This should have been plainly ridiculous to the Elizabethan audience.
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For all the recent flak, many Tories are in ridiculously high spirits.
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I'm not advocating necessarily getting rid of them entirely, but make it so that they can't sell stuff from champion mob drops, among other things. such as runic items in particular, which tend to go for ridiculous amounts of gold There should be a list of stuff which player-run vendors can and can't sell.
A Shot Across the Bow
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It's not necessary to spelunk too deeply into the taint sewer in order to collect some of the most ridiculous examples of the press -- the apparently "liberal" and "in the tank for Obama" press, by the way -- attempting to connect Barack Obama with the alleged Blagojevich crimes.
Bob Cesca: Why the Media Taint-Mongers are Continuing to Wrongfully Accuse Obama
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In the chilly evenings, ridiculously seated on striped, collapsible beach chairs that blew over the second we got up, we cooked and ate outside wrapped in warm fleeces and woolly hats.
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Thou art in mourning now, as well as I: but if ever thy ridiculous turn lead thee again to be beau-brocade, I will bedizen thee, as the girls say, on my return, to my own fancy, and according to thy own natural appearance — Thou shalt doctor my soul, and I will doctor thy body: thou shalt see what a clever fellow I will make of thee.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Notice that there has only been one Supergirl trade until the ridiculous "upskirt" run at the end.
Cronin Theory of Comics – “Avoid the Big Event” | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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The relatively subdued performances don't jive with the elaborate, ridiculous sketches.
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To call the bit of silk that clung to her body a dress was ridiculous.
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Imagining the ridiculous trigger for the situation, Mallory shook her head in bewilderment.
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It all adds up to loads of ridiculous fun, and a really sucky future where novelist Michael Crichton is allowed to continue directing movies.
Eric’s Top 10 Movies That Prove the Future Will Suck » Scene-Stealers
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I'd rather hang out with the naifs and unsophisticates, I think, who appreciate the new and unusual, and whose bar for those things hasn't gotten to be ridiculously high.
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It is, I have said, the fashion for both to be greatly overcome and to appear as if about to faint: the groom looks especially ridiculous when so attitudinising.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It is quite simply the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard.
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Englishmen when I say that to insult and abuse a man for adopting another faith, however opposed to our own, and even ridiculous in itself, is an odious method in controversy, and for myself I see little to choose between a proselyte of the gate, a renegade Mason, and a demitted Roman Catholic.
Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
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However, like Harley-Davidson motorcycles, they look completely out of context, if not ridiculous, on the narrow, windy streets of London.
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I just got tired of hearing all the ridiculousness.
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It is ridiculous that Carragher gets approval for leathering a clearance into the stands.
How do you like your sour grapes, Señor Xavi Hernández? | Richard Williams
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That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste. John Green
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In that straw hat and that ridiculous set of pyjamas.
Times, Sunday Times
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For age, which naturally and unavoidably is but one remove from death, and consequently should have nothing about it but what looks like a decent preparation for it, scarce ever appears of late days but in the high mode, the flaunting garb, and utmost gaudery of youth; with clothes as ridiculously, and as much in the fashion, as the person that wears them is usually grown out of it.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
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Of course, that was ridiculous, but to her nothing made much rational sense.
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It's taken me a while to come round to what originally looked a fairly ridiculous notion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Heine’s mental history, but because they are a specimen of his power in that kind of dithyrambic writing which, in less masterly hands, easily becomes ridiculous:
The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
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Dena bought rolls of silk that seemed ridiculously cheap.
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It will keep you from having to pay a ridiculously high transaction fee.
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During the campaign, he made a ridiculous boast that 30 million new jobs would be created if he won the election.
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Of course all of that ridiculousness is long-gone today, although it still exists informally in the sense that every town has a White area, a Black area, and a Colored area.
Archive 2008-10-01
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In English it can seem ridiculously overblown.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I forced a smile, a lying, deceitful, false smile, as if that was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard.
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The two-hour extravaganza features comedy sketches, ridiculous games and live music.
Times, Sunday Times
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They go from the sublime to the ridiculous with their cricket.
The Sun
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personally, I always thought the "extremeness" of these makeovers was ridiculous in the first place
Digg.com: Stories / Popular
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A few approved highly of my conduct; while many not only blamed, but publicly derided me, for what they termed a ridiculous weakness.
Narrative of Joanna; An Emancipated Slave, of Surinam.
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These times make it especially necessary to be in touch with the asurdity, the ridiculous, the funniness, and the irony of the everyday.
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Ridiculous! Whoever suggested such a thing?
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It is ridiculously absurd to believe that the number 13 is unlucky.
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He was wearing that ridiculous disguise.
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Noting he can make what he calls ridiculous money on the lecture circuit.
CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2007
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You were always leading that ridiculous posse of yours in high school.
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Over brunch at a Remington noshery, Kimball talks about the rather ridiculous production of this movie, which moved from idea and first shooting in March 2009 to debuting this weekend at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson.
Baltimore City Paper
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By the standards of wilderness activities such as backpacking, sea kayaking is ridiculously prodigal of weight and space.
From Sea To Shining Sea
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Because this movie is more than just a parody of that series, and it's also ridiculously funny.
The Sun
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I have a test tonight that I'm ridiculously underprepared for, because I've been heavily concentrating on my other class.
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It really is ridiculously fast and very loud.
The Sun
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Two ravers are discussing how ridiculous it is that videogames are blamed for inciting killing sprees.
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He used the stock characters of traditional Italian comedy, but cleaned up their characteristic ridiculous licentious behaviour in an attempt to introduce a higher moral tone.
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Boy, the ridiculous right is like a spoiled four year old: never happy, refusing to agree with anything because its far more easy to be a coward and criticize from the sidelines.
Obama: Bailout for Main Street
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So this education, and the consequent asperities of character, which would have been softened down in a higher social sphere, could only serve to make her ridiculous at Angouleme so soon as her adorers should cease to worship eccentricities that charm only in youth.
Two Poets
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Hopefully this ridiculous ban will get overturned when the matter goes to appeal.
The Sun
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Johnson onstage was somewhat less ridiculously clad, but his musical taste is as questionable as his fashion sense.
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All those who reckoned it looked a case of the ridiculous meeting the sublime, take a bow.
The Sun
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Jules Renard
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He wrote once that we ought to stop the ridiculous pretense of calling these toplofty politicians our ‘leaders’; they are in fact our rulers.
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The things we tasted went from the sublime to the ridiculous to the outstanding to the disgusting.
The Sun
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I myself said to you that you were ridiculously exaggerating what you called your obligation to me.
The Market-Place
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Give Maria Bello credit, if you like, for having the courage to take on a character so indelibly linked to one of the great actors of our time, Helen Mirren- and then take it away for the ridiculously behatted mash she and the show have made of the character.
USATODAY.com News
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While Fringe is powerfully affecting, this week's Supernatural in the same time period, aggravatingly enough is ridiculously entertaining, a welcome satirical change of pace from the grim events of this so-far-spotty post-apocalyptic sixth season.
Roush Review: Fringe, Supernatural, Spartacus: Friday Night Lights Up
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I was going to post about some of the ridiculousness in my life (and by that I mean one outcome of said ridiculousness is that I've been BANNED from an online book forum, oh nooooooooooooooes!), but I'd much rather let y'all know that yesterday I found out that I'll have a piece of short fiction published in an upcoming issue of Behind the Wainscot. w00t!
It's in the cards
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 The family watches boyfriend Matt with careful scrutiny and the scene is deliberately set up for them to enjoy his obvious discomfort, which seems a bit mean as he and Astra teleport into a ridiculously complex and beautiful Kirby-esque skyscape filled with planets and dots and fooferaw.
Review: Astro City - Astra Special #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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In his last great battle there was only a baleful and ridiculous malignancy.
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Ruben Quinones, 33, director of sales and social media for Path Interactive, a digital advertising agency in New York City that provides services to a handful of pest control companies, called the bedbug search environment over the last few weeks "ridiculously competitive.
NYT > Home Page
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Nobody wanted their little princesses to live the life of the great French tragedienne, with her denial of moral constraint, her ridiculous traveling menagerie and her monumental myth-making.
Actress, Seductress
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Just as the pause edges towards the ridiculous he reaches into his jacket for this packet of cheroots.
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Maybe it's the beribboned high waistlines, maybe it's the delicate petticoats or maybe it's those slightly ridiculous bonnets, but whatever the reason, behind-the-hand sniggers are a certainty.
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Yah, ridiculous when the alternative is to simply kiss the species goodbye.
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It is just another example of how ridiculous our politically correct system actually is.
The Sun
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Quite frankly, I think this whole situation is ridiculous.
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The Princess became somewhat alarmed; she was besides extremely good-natured, nor had her intentions of leading the old man into what would render him ridiculous, been so accurately planned with malice prepense, as they were the effect of accident and chance.
Count Robert of Paris
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Men had these funny bobbed hairstyles, so we had to find a way for people not to look ridiculous.
Times, Sunday Times
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The system is so ridiculously simple you will be wondering why it does not exist where you live.
The Sun
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To be clear in a complex world, the rational linear communicator is forced to either ridiculously oversimplify a situation or disappear into mumbo-jumbo bizspeak.
Shark Attack!
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The Abbe chanced one day to be in company with my husband, who was an old acquaintance of his, where many of the chopfallen deputies, like themselves, true lovers of their country, could not help declaring their indignation at its degraded state, and reprobating Bonaparte for rendering it so ridiculous in the face of Europe and the world.
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 7
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I wonder if they can be trained to chase ramblers in their ridiculous coloured cagoules, and look for food under caravans.
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We thought it was ridiculous that someone so young who had just come out of basic training was sent there.
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Of course, one reason why they might need training is that the system sounds ridiculously complex.
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The only existing continental gaming houses authorized by government are now the two Badens, Spa (of which the lease is nearly expired, and will not be renewed), Monaco (capital of the ridiculous little Italian principality, of which the suzerain is a scion of the house of "Grimaldi&"), Malmöe, in Sweden, too remote to do much harm, and HOMBOURG.
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France
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So yeah, I had to work out but, you know, it's such a ridiculous character, the guy's so silly that I don't think it would have mattered if he'd got a pot belly.
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And as for those ridiculous celebrations after scoring a goal, please stop.
The Sun
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People say the most ridiculous but breathtaking things.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ridiculous metal guitars were parodied hilariously by worthy MIDI keyboards, but here they are reveled in, with no irony intended.
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When he lights a cigarette, he looks ridiculously young.
Times, Sunday Times
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The parade was crowded with nobility and gentry, and I had to pull past them in this ridiculous fashion.
Three Men in a Boat