Ridiculous

Examples

• I make the schoolmaster so ridiculous, and so aware of being made ridiculous, that I see him chafe and fret at every pore when we cross one another. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• On the edge of her consciousness the question was asking itself, automatically: 'Why ARE you behaving in this IMPOSSIBLE and ridiculous fashion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I've never dined out in London; and I don't want to be ridiculous. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It quite spoiled my pleasure for that night because it was so very embarrassing and so very ridiculous. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He was very earnest, and earnestness was always rather ridiculous, commonplace, to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I don't think I made myself very ridiculous, but I know I was resolute. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Yes, indeed, he said: according to present notions the proposal would be thought ridiculous. Plato. The Republic.
• She thought it humiliating to see a man dressing: the ridiculous shirt, the ridiculous trousers and braces. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I could not blame them, for I knew how strong a hold a creed, however ridiculous it may be, may gain upon an otherwise intelligent people. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It was ridiculous enough to have a stranger coming over to marry me, whether he liked it or not. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• How ridiculous you are, Jo! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• To you, perhaps, observed Worcester, trying to laugh, from a fear of seeming ridiculous. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• You said, according to him, that he would be one of those ridiculous clergymen who help to make the whole clergy ridiculous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mamma often declares the likeness is quite ridiculous. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Ridiculous--ridiculous. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It would make a man so ridiculous, after going in for these fellows, to back out in such an incomprehensible way. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It's ridiculous, ma'am,' said Bitzer, 'because the chances are against the players. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• A most ridiculous position this, to be found out in! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And does not the same hold also of the ridiculous? Plato. The Republic.
• She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Yes, he said; that a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed. Plato. The Republic.
• Can anything be more ridiculous, I exclaimed, than the rage which is caused alone by your not returning a man's passion! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• No, he replied, such an idea would be ridiculous. Plato. The Republic.
• Everybody noticed that ridiculous mourning. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Surely the men were stupid and ridiculous and cowardly. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The vices of levity and vanity necessarily render him ridiculous, and are, besides, almost as ruinous to him as they are to the common people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But some people are always ridiculous. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid! Jane Austen. Emma.
• To oil your boots instead of blacking them, to dust your coat with a switch instead of a brush--was there ever anything more ridiculous? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Yes, I said, the question is, as you say, ridiculous. Plato. The Republic.

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