It is not necessary, and might not be generally interesting to repeat all the ridiculous things I said, even if I could remember them.
Gross and ridiculous as this blunder appears, we are compelled by candour to allow, that the affectation of showing knowledge has betrayed to shame men far superior to our Hibernian, both in reputation and in the means of acquiring knowledge.
Is this dress ridiculous in the eyes of reason and common sense?
Frequently the thoughts of putting an end to my existence occurred; and I had many times determined upon the means; but very small and apparently inadequate and ridiculous motives, prevented the execution of my design.
A man must be ridiculous sometimes," said he, "and bear to be thought so.
Lady Geraldine contrived to make him as ridiculous in his real as in his assumed character.
As the historian observes, "The ridiculous cannonade at the top of the hill had exhausted his ammunition, his great guns were useless to him, and he lost the day by his premature rejoicings before the battle.
The old moon hung above the church and lit up the ridiculous stone eagles on the decayed and pompous houses on Margery's right.
For all that mixed but mainly respectable company rose up, and, opening timidly, rendered with an ever-increasing confidence and volume that profane and ridiculous hymn.
He was as much amused as disgusted, and he did not intend, for any woman, to make himself ridiculous by attempting any of the more recent monstrosities.
The two men crouched against the wall in a tense and ridiculous agitation.
Stephen seized it savagely and tried to bend it in under the mouth of the sack, with brutal ridiculous tugs, like an ill-tempered man packing an over-loaded bag.
To fall from the sublime to the ridiculousis especially awkward, and results in becoming very particularly ridiculous yourself.
He saw that he was very near being driven to the ridiculous necessity of giving her some advice of the paternal kind.
And now there is no reprieve, for I have committed myself, am sentenced, and condemned to be made ridiculous in your eyes.
And truly if one of the jury had not been wiser than the others, she had been condemned thereupon, and upon other as ridiculous matters as this.
In what degree or kind the Fetish-charms of the African savages are more ridiculous or disgusting than those popular in England 200 years ago, it would not be easy to determine.
On June 2, a formal commission sat, before which the most ridiculous evidence was gravely given and as gravely received.
Now as it is ridiculous to assert that self-love and the love of our neighbour are the same, so neither is it asserted that following these different affections hath the same tendency and respect to our own interest.
I will end this particular with two reflections of the Wise Man; one of which, in the strongest manner, exposes the ridiculous part of this licentiousness of the tongue; and the other, the great danger and viciousness of it.
It were ridiculous to assert that a man upon reflection hath the same kind of approbation of the appetite of hunger or the passion of fear as he hath of goodwill to his fellow-creatures.
It is entirely useless, Harry Gilbert, to attempt to impose upon me by any such ridiculous story.
He said they were given to him, or some such ridiculous nonsense, and his mother actually backed him up in this preposterous statement.
But it was not in the power of their navy that the British Government and the people of England and Canada placed their greatest trust, but in the incapacity of their petty foe to support its ridiculous assumptions.
This journey will also enable him to learn if such a ridiculous will really exists, and if your husband has reached such a pitch of independence.
About the same time, the Jesuits caused Madame de Maintenon a much more acute pain than that of the ridiculous print.
In the midst of these ridiculous and indefensible conversations, the news arrived that the King had broken his arm.
I remarked distinctly, in the looks and manner of the Dauphine, that ridiculous and clumsy animosity which she had taken a fancy to lavish on me.
But in a few short months this much-exalted hero had to confess that "from the sublime to the ridiculous was but a step.
He was now exalted to the skies, but (so much for human mutability) he proved that, from the exalted pinnacle of fame to the ridiculous was but a step.
And nothing in this world, nor that which is to come, will, as a rule, enable her to face a ridiculous position for a whole year.
No doubt she will for a time, but she has a strong sense of humour, and she will soon perceive what a ridiculous attitude she takes up.
It was ridiculous of her to sit and talk with him so long.
A woman may have principles and theories, but life is so arranged that she soon sees how ridiculous it is to try and act on them.
I don't intend to be stopped by this ridiculous little clown who has got the authorities in Ellensburg interested in us.
Oh, Jack, it's such a ridiculous thing to be a woman!
After many fruitless and ridiculous efforts to the same purpose, the foolish Frog burst her skin, and miserably expired upon the spot.
Boastful cowards may impose upon those who do not know them, but are held to be only ridiculous by those who do.
When anyone is flattered as possessing qualities he ought to feel conscious he does not possess, let him beware lest the flatterers wish either to deprive him of some solid good, or to make him appear ridiculousin the eyes of others.
Some of the consequences were tragic, but the rest so ridiculous that I can never call the adventure to mind without feeling the comedy prevail.
I am sure you don't, and I care just as little for you, not a pin, madam, with your ridiculous airs.
Last week four opera libretti were sent to me, each one more ridiculous than the other; the only result is to make enemies for myself.
A ridiculous thing happened,' Horace writes, 'when the princess saw company after her confinement.
The spirit of each party was therefore personal, and their attacks on one another were more personal than anything we can imagine in the present day in so respectably ridiculous a conclave as the House of Commons.
All these sects, which appear dangerous or ridiculous at a distance, assume a much more amicable character on nearer inspection.
Moreover, a sense of the ridiculous is a sound preservative of social virtues.
It also explains why Father Faber regarded an honest sense of the ridiculous as a help to goodness.
We are ridiculous animals," observes Horace Walpole unsympathetically, "and if angels have any fun in their hearts, how we must divert them.
His personal sketch of Bewick is a ridiculous caricature.
Very ridiculous to help your father to escape as you did, 'pon my honour.
How ridiculous it makes one feel to be so horribly sleepy!
Perhaps I had better take one too," he said aloud; and then to his companion as they went out: "Makes one look so ridiculous and childish before the servants.
Besides, he looked very ridiculous in pyjamas which only reached halfway down his legs and arms.
It's ridiculous to suppose that he's landing a cargo of port wine for consumption in the common room.
I had not the smallest intention of making myself ridiculous by claiming any kind of authority over her, especially in a matter so purely personal as the young man she chose to favour.
But I could not imagine that Crossan had started one of those ridiculous industries by means of which Government Boards and philanthropic ladies think they will add to the wealth of the Irish peasants.
So far from having no consequences at all, Godfrey's ridiculous letter actually precipitated the conflict which took place.
But I don't think it's quite fair to ask them to face ten times their own number of men all armed with magazine rifles when they have nothing but those ridiculous little carbines.
You have been misinformed, and have made a ridiculous and quite unfounded statement concerning Professor Greer--one which seriously reflects upon his daughter, his household, and his friends.
He was firmly resolved that Squire Pope should not have his way, but he did not choose to make himself ridiculous by an ineffectual resistance which would only have ended in his discomfiture.
It is ridiculous that a town pauper should own a violin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ridiculous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
