Thesaurus / ridiculous
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Some of it has to be attributed to the ridiculous offensive environment we have seen in the bubble.
MONSTER GAMES IN THE NBA PLAYOFFS AREN’T AUTOMATICALLY TRANSLATING TO WINSJARED DUBINAUGUST 26, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
In my driveway during lunchtime I felt ridiculous swinging a kettlebell.
THE GYM-FREE PANDEMIC WORKOUT: KETTLEBELLS, INDIAN CLUBS, SANDBAGS, OH MY!EUGENE ROBINSONAUGUST 25, 2020OZY
We’re coming up with such a ridiculous answer that it really forces us to reinvestigate every single assumption that we made along the way to get there.
THE PHYSICIST WHO SLAYED GRAVITY’S GHOSTSTHOMAS LEWTONAUGUST 18, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
The telltale sign of these problems is that models claiming to predict past elections extremely well often produce inaccurate — or even ridiculous — answers when applied to elections in which the result is unknown ahead of time.
HOW FIVETHIRTYEIGHT’S 2020 PRESIDENTIAL FORECAST WORKS — AND WHAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE OF COVID-19NATE SILVER (NRSILVER@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)AUGUST 12, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
Shepard said he’s always dismissed allegations of voter fraud through mail voting as ridiculous, based on the validation steps followed by registrars in California, and by San Diego Registrar Michael Vu in particular.
GOP CHAIR WHO CALLED MAIL VOTING ‘FRAUGHT WITH DANGER’ VOTED BY MAIL 22 STRAIGHT TIMESANDREW KEATTSAUGUST 10, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
It is a ridiculous thing for the Holby people to do; but I have to go to play the patroness.
CORD AND CREESEJAMES DE MILLE
The worst enemy of M. le Duc d'Orleans could not have devised a more rash and ridiculous undertaking.
THE MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV., HIS COURT AND THE REGENCY, COMPLETEDUC DE SAINT-SIMON
Then the father laughed; and Arne felt it was ridiculous and began, too.
ARNE; A SKETCH OF NORWEGIAN COUNTRY LIFEBJRNSTJERNE BJRNSON
Love is ridiculous or insipid in nearly all his other works.
INITIATION INTO LITERATUREEMILE FAGUET
But centrifugal force had rendered them ridiculous, and the public never sympathises with those whom ridicule has covered.
THE LION'S SHAREE. ARNOLD BENNETT
WORDS RELATED TO RIDICULOUS
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- sophistic
- specious
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- unreasonable
- unreasoning
- unsound
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- derisive
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- eccentric
- entertaining
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- fatuous
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- imprudent
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- simple
- softheaded
- stupid
- tomfool
- unearthly
- unintelligent
- unreasonable
- unwise
- wacky
- weak
- witless
- zany
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