ridiculously
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ridiculous + -ly
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ridiculously (comparative more ridiculously, superlative most ridiculously)
- In a ridiculous manner. In a way that is funny, embarrassing or extremely implausible.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
- 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 78:
- `I was with the ballet back home, but the money was ridiculously low.'
- 2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian:
- It's a shame; not only are nuts quite ridiculously nutritious but, as anyone who's ever shelled out (sorry) for a tiny glass of pistachios in a pub will know, they're a guaranteed crowd-pleaser. But although I happen to have a soft spot for nut roast – an option often preferable to the meat that emerged from the school kitchen – it seems I'm in a cranky minority. A request for recipe recommendations was met with a polite silence on Twitter: vegetarianism, apparently, has moved on a bit. You don't see Yotam Ottolenghi faffing about with nut roasts, do you? But I'm determined to revive the fortunes of this much-maligned classic. After all, Christmas isn't Christmas without a luxury nut selection.
- (degree) extremely; very
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in a ridiculous manner
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