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Ridiculousness

noun
1.
A message whose content is at variance with reason.  Synonyms: absurdity, absurdness.





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"Ridiculousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... 19th inst., and he earnestly hopes that your Majesty has arrived quite safe and well in London. Besides the family, we have had hardly anybody here except Lady Clanricarde.[132] Yesterday Sir Edward L. Bulwer[133] came, beating his brother hollow in ridiculousness of attire, ridiculous as the other is. He has, however, much in him, and is agreeable when you come ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) • Queen Victoria
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... tea and bread and butter" he had ordered in pursuance of his promise, he heroically took it himself—to satisfy his honor. Indeed, I know of no more sublime figure than Colonel Starbottle—rising superior to a long-withstood craving for a "cocktail," morbidly conscious also of the ridiculousness of his appearance to any of his old associates who might see him—drinking luke-warm tea and pecking feebly at his bread and butter at a small table, beside his ...
— Trent's Trust and Other Stories • Bret Harte
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Words linked to "Ridiculousness" :   bunk, ridiculous, nonsense, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum


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