It s collective ridicule.

That hokeypokey gets you killed.

Now we would go for ridiculous.

Stop being so silly.

Well, obviously not.

It's silly, I feel all dizzy...

What silly thing was that to do?

I didn't count on looking that ridiculous.

It's silly to stand here and talk about it.

So let me undo this silliness that I just wrote there.

Of course it's silly to talk about it. Let's do it. I'll show you.

Well, I'm attempting to indicate, sir, the utter absurdity... of the line of questioning used by the prosecutor.

Such stupidity is without equal in the entire history of human relations.

Indeed, it is clear that ratings were ridiculously distorted.

But such a claim didn't result in anything but scorn and ridicule?

And my feeling is, asking me to talk about the future is bizarre, because I've got gray hair, and so, it's kind of silly for me to talk about the future.

But, darling, I could never have said anything so silly! I couldn't!

You're silly to call me all the way from London just to have your dog talk to me.

It was an absurd thing to say, of course, in 1938, given the size of Europe s populations today. And it would be an equally ridiculous thing to say now, too.

And as for suspecting the barman, that's ridiculous.

The claim by many Israelis that there are no partners for peace is absurd.

And yours lit up when you heard he had a 10 million inheritance. Equally ridiculous.

Banning the light bulb because candle makers would lose their jobs strikes almost everyone as a silly idea.

So, let's say, I cut prices below Imran because I realize this increase price strategy was kind of silly.

It is even more ludicrous to extend the sovereignty notion to viruses that, like flu, can be carried across international borders by migratory birds.

In September 2012, Jeju is hosting the World Conservation Congress, which is totally ridiculous in light of what is happening in Gangjeong right now.

I was invited to design a logo for this neighborhood, called the North Side, and I thought it was silly for a neighborhood to have a logo.

Oh, right. And my feeling is, asking me to talk about the future is bizarre, because I've got gray hair, and so, it's kind of silly for me to talk about the future.

Well, obviously not. It would be absurd if we were to engage again in the kind of operations we were engaged in, in Iraq and Afghanistan if we were to suddenly find ourselves in a situation in which we were imposing anything other than a democratic system.

To judge by Tsipras s belligerence, he firmly believes that Europe needs Greece as desperately as Greece needs Europe. This is the true absurdity in the present negotiations, and Tsipras misapprehension of his bargaining power now risks catastrophe for his country, humiliation for his Syriza party, or both.

Here, few students would condone blocking technological progress. Banning the light bulb because candle makers would lose their jobs strikes almost everyone as a silly idea.