5 sentences with 'ridiculously'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ridiculously and other words derived from it.
• « The idea of the statesman-turned-secret-agent "contains such a ridiculously exaggerated perception of personal position and influence that the court must dismiss the defendant's proffered motives." »
• « Iconoclasm was one of those phenomena that may seem almost ridiculously trivial in historical retrospect, but it had a huge (and almost entirely negative) impact at the time. For people who believed in God's constant intervention in the smallest things, iconoclasm was an issue of enormous importance. »
• « Early gunpowder weapons were ridiculously inaccurate and dangerous (to the user) by later standards - they exploded frequently, were highly inaccurate and took a long time to reload. However, they were also lethal and relatively easy to use. »
• « Women wore very impractical dresses with sometimes ridiculously tight corsets underneath, the better to fulfil their social function as ornaments to beautify the home. »
• « Court officials sympathetic to his politics gave Hitler and his followers ridiculously short sentences in minimum security prisons, a sentence Hitler spent dictating his autobiography, Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), to Nazi party secretary Rudolf Hess. »