ridiculous Englisch:

It is absurd to believe that young children can run faster than policemen.

The chairman rejected his absurd proposal.

Your method of teaching English is absurd.

You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.

that's absurd

His affected manner of speaking seemed very absurd to me.

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend.

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

I think putting thieves to death is not lawful; and it is plain and obvious that it is absurd and of ill consequence to the commonwealth that a thief and a murderer should be equally punished.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

The obedience of everyone to rules, even absurd ones, promotes a greater cohesion within society.

Flights to the moon were once thought absurd.

It is neither more nor less than absurd.

This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

Many great scientists had thought about absurd things.

You're going to teach me? That's laughable!

Most airline passengers think it is laughable that a small yellow life jacket will make any difference if the plane crashes.

If it weren't amusing it would be laughable.

Privately they thought the idea laughable.

Laughter is the only cure against vanity, and vanity is the only laughable fault.

it's ludicrous that I have been fined"

There's a spaceship in your back garden? What a ludicrous idea!

he's making himself look ludicrous

ludicrous idea

His behaviour has been preposterous recently

It was fun escapism and we emerged from the cinema in a big West London shopping mall laughing about some of more preposterous stunts we had just witnessed.

don’t be preposterous!

The whole thing still strikes me as totally preposterous

To me, at the time, it sounded preposterous because I didn’t think anybody would buy a Pet Rock.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Don't be silly!

Even the cleverest students can make silly mistakes.

Ikeda made several silly mistakes, and so he was told off by the department head.

The meeting was going off without a hitch until he threw a wet blanket on it by making silly remarks.

Bob thinks it is a silly idea to call his mother who is so far away, to spend so much, and to say so little.

It may never be known how we silly Anglophones got "baloney" out of "bologna."

His parents' view was that he was wasting his earnings on a silly girl.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

If my kid couldn't speak Shanghainese, I’d slap him silly. the man said.

This may be a silly question, but which is stronger - a tiger or a lion?

Sentences bring context to the words. Sentences have personalities. They can be funny, smart, silly, insightful, touching, hurtful.

What a silly question! That was a silly thing to do, wasn’t it? Don’t be silly – it’s only a spider. She makes a fuss about such silly little (= unimportant) things.

It is a silly practice for non-Christians to send chocolates on St. Valentine's Day.

All that's left for me is to drink myself silly with vodka and to get lost in sleep.