Sentence examples for ridiculously by from inspiring English sources

The highly idealised result, widely reproduced and retouched ever since (most recently and ridiculously by Wordsworth Classics), became the "acceptable face" of Jane Austen: gentle, doe-eyed, prim and pretty.

It's important to be calm and not act ridiculously by chasing, screaming or carrying on.

The company will be touring "Nearly Ninety" without its ridiculous (and ridiculously expensive) set by Benedetta Tagliabue, but also, less happily, without its handsome Romeo Gigli costumes.

The UK's 4G auction was ridiculously delayed by arguments over the allocation available to EE (now owned by BT).

I am ridiculously pleased by her interest.

Brown's upper target for public sector debt to national income was 40%, ridiculously low by international standards.

And in fact, while the Zil hospital seems ridiculously underfinanced by American standards, it handsomely outspends its public competitors.

At least at universities, the "customer" is not always right and the importance of the National Student Survey is ridiculously overinflated by government and university management.

That seemed ridiculously backward by the lights of the time's reigning vanguards of flinty post-minimalism, cagey conceptualism, and chaste abstraction.

Roofe, described as "ridiculously focused" by his manager, has been thrilling spectators and attracting scouts from higher up the food chain all season having seized his chance in senior football.

That conviction – in a case ridiculously pushed by the CPS – was quashed in the high court, but only after a prolonged legal battle in which he was supported by a number of celebrities.