Sentence examples for ridiculously from inspiring English sources

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ridiculously

adverb

In a ridiculous manner. In a way that is funny, embarrassing or extremely implausible.

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The desperation to be, or feel, as close as possible to the Kaaba has forced buildings to become ever higher, ever more ridiculously tapered, so everyone can have a view, however notional, of the sacred centre.

His recurrent appearances on SNL, playing Hulk-like, shape-shifting Potus "The Rock" Obama, have been ridiculously endearing (especially whenever he flings Ted Cruz out of a window), and you haven't lived until you've seen him lip-sync Taylor Swift's Shake It Off with Jimmy Fallon ("Oh Jimmy, your ass is gettin' ready to know Tay-Tay!").

While the desire to help obviously comes from a genuine place, it doesn't help pop's own causes when they put on ridiculously bedazzled sunglasses and clothes that are uncomfortably fashionable, uncrossing their Louboutin-shod feet to wax lyrical about the injustices of the world.

It seems so completely unlikely that this ridiculously wholesome woman would prove essential to my festive cheer and yet, whether it was Mary Poppins or Maria, my sisters and I spent our childhood Christmases watching her gather up various naughty children, and boss and cajole them into behaving properly.

Compared with Beyoncé's lightning strike release plan, two of 2013's other big pop albums – Katy Perry's Prism and Lady Gaga's ARTPOP – seem ridiculously quaint.

Within the security of such luxury, it's easy to laugh at Menstrual Hygiene Day But the films are still powerful, not least because they make me think about things nearer to home, where I do have a toilet, and always have had, and have always been able to buy sanitary pads or tampons – though they are, ridiculously, taxed, while disposable razors are not.

Granted, someone's thrown enough money at the thing to give the cinematography a glossy sheen, but the concept is so ridiculously wrongheaded that you will spend much of the running time banging your skull against the nearest wall in frustration to notice.

Even before dystopias took over, most heroines were either languishing in rotting castles (like Cassandra Mortmain in I Capture The Castle) or so ridiculously perfect that you ended up hating them them (hello, Sweet Valley Twins...)...

BOOM! Saúl Berjón volleyed in a ridiculously good goal during the game of the weekend which Eibar drew 3-3 against Levante, thanks to superbly taken 94th-minute winner from Piovaccari.

53 min: Gareth Bale slaloms down the left wing at a ridiculously fast lick, cuts inside and across the face of the penalty area and is then penalised for a foul on Robert Beric, who's back helping out in defence.

Climate talks in Lima ran into extra time amid rising frustration from developing countries at the "ridiculously low" commitments from rich countries to help pay for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

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