He was very well aware that he ran no risk of being ridiculous in the eyes of Betsy or any other fashionable people.

Some of these were more or less appropriate: as Rusty, Retiring, Ruddy, Round, Ripe, Ridiculous , Ruminative; others, derived their point from their want of application: as Raging, Rattling, Roaring, Raffish.

Rachel says you went to church last Sunday with your hat rigged out ridiculous with roses and buttercups.

I began to feel a little ridiculous . At last we passed a stationer's, and it occurred to me that I might as well buy some paper.

It would make a man so ridiculous , after going in for these fellows, to back out in such an incomprehensible way.'

A LION seeing a Poodle fell into laughter at the ridiculous spectacle.

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous .

He unexpectedly felt himself ridiculous , weak, and alone, with no ground to stand on.

Art, culture--in the face of the iron facts of biology such things were ridiculous , the exponents of such things only the more ridiculous .

Yes, we shall be always beautiful because nature has made us passable; but we shall be ridiculous , because the fashion will have forgotten us.

"It is not easy for even you." said Estella, "to know what satisfaction it gives me to see those people thwarted, or what an enjoyable sense of the ridiculous I have when they are made ridiculous .