Ridiculously
[ri'dikjuləsli]
Examples
- He promoted his brothers ridiculously--for they were the most ordinary of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was ridiculously disappointed, as if he had imagined that her coming had anything to do with him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It's—it's ridiculously mild,' said Tom. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Then Palamedes, whenever he appears in tragedy, proves Agamemnon ridiculously unfit to be a general. Plato. The Republic.
- Harry De Roos declares Sophia to be most ridiculously jealous of her sister Charlotte's beauty. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He was conscious of being irritated by ridiculously small causes, which were half of his own creation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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