(n.) An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
(n.) Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.
(n.) Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
(v. t.) To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
(a.) Ridiculous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous.
(2) It is ridiculous,' says Li Rui, a former secretary of Mao Zedong.
(3) No doubt it was intended as a bold and graphic way of presenting the Iranian nuclear threat, but much of the initial response – on Twitter, at least – was ridicule.
(4) "It would be ridiculous to encourage shale gas when in reality its greenhouse gas footprint could be as bad as or worse than coal.
(5) He says he won't respond to the latest ridiculous rumor of Republican action.
(6) At the 2nd stage, as the self-esteem lowered and negative attitude of other schoolchildren arose, the neurotic disorders emerged alongside with prevalent depressive reactions and fear of getting bad marks and being an object of ridicule at school.
(7) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.
(8) Walden said the comparison with Comet was “ridiculous”.
(9) Well, Machado put those skills on display on Sunday, and this is an excuse to bring you his ridiculous play against the Yankees.
(10) Alamgir was ridiculed on social media after he told the BBC that the building may have collapsed after opposition activists enforcing a general strike "pushed at the gate and columns of the building".
(11) "The ANC pretence that we don't have a social crisis in this country is quite ridiculous.
(12) So we started asking them ridiculous questions about being single," says Lucas, "and the sheer number of misunderstandings about each other's lives felt like comedic material."
(13) "Rio Ferdinand's decision-making, the chances he has taken, it is ridiculous.
(14) It's ridiculous, because there will soon be a massive public outcry about how there's nowhere for kids to go.
(15) Westminster wits had taken to ridiculing the rebel movement against Gordon Brown as a "peasants' revolt", a cohort without influence.
(16) To create a new bank, which we understand is an option, which could be called Glyn Mills, is ridiculously back to the future.
(17) JD, Oxford More than three months to get a replacement debit card is ridiculous, and we agree that you have been more than patient.
(18) The Kiev-appointed governor, Serhiy Taruta, has dismissed this poll as ridiculous, pointing out that most of the region's 2.4 million voters won't take part.
(19) Liberal Democrats and Conservatives today ridiculed a request by Labour to broadcasters to focus more on policy analysis.
(20) Edge: Cardinals Bench Shane Robinson made a name for himself in Game Four of the NLCS with a pinch-hit home run and actually finished the NLCS with an OPS of 1.278, which is completely ridiculous and tops any of his teammates by a country mile.
Roast
Definition:
(v. t.) To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.
(v. t.) To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
(v. t.) To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
(v. t.) Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
(v. t.) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
(v. t.) To banter severely.
(v. i.) To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
(v. i.) To undergo the process of being roasted.
(n.) That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
(a.) Roasted; as, roast beef.
Example Sentences:
(1) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
(2) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
(3) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(4) Lamb leg and rib roasts were more tender when cooked from the thawed state.
(5) "We were originally going to start a café," Hoffmann says, "but then the economy broke so we started roasting in a railway arch."
(6) Now I’ve got this bee in my bonnet and want to tell people “Roast it whole until the skin’s soft, take it out of the Aga, cool it a bit and it will be just lovely”.
(7) Of the 15 furans eight methylvinylfurans, dimethyl-vinylfurans and alkenylfurans, which had not been previously found in roasted foodstuffs, should be specially mentioned.
(8) On the other hand, two min of dry roasting resulted in complete removal of oligosaccharides whereas germination resulted in about 30-40% decrease after 1 and 2 days, respectively.
(9) My roast beef sandwich with crispy onions and celeriac was tasty, although the decision to serve it on a slight sweet buttermilk roll is a curious one.
(10) Male rats were fed both popped amaranths and roasted amaranth.
(11) Roasting its own single estate coffees, Tailor Made also looks great, with a high ceiling decorated with tailoring patterns and a huge sgraffito (scraped plaster) bust.
(12) When various proportions of roasted beans and corn were fed at a level of 8.3% protein in the diet, a mixture in which 40% to 60% of the protein was provided by either beans or corn had a PER essentially the same as casein.
(13) The last roast came from John McCain, The Daily Show’s once most frequent guest during the 00s .
(14) Phenolic compounds and aromatic hydrocarbons are components in many foods and often typical flavoring substances for example of roasted and smoked products.
(15) Mix the halved sprouts with the oil and a quarter-teaspoon of salt, then spread out on an oven tray lined with baking paper and roast for 10 minutes, until cooked through and golden-brown but still crunchy, then remove from the oven.
(16) While the chicken is roasting, halve the charentais melon and discard the seeds, then remove the flesh from the skin with a sharp knife and slice into thick, juicy pieces, putting them and any juice into a large mixing bowl.
(17) Dehulled lupins commercially roasted at low, moderate, and high temperatures resulted in ruminal in situ N disappearances of 59, 47, and 43% for the respective temperatures.
(18) Raw whole cottonseed (CS), extruded whole cottonseed (ECS), and roasted whole cottonseed (RCS) were fed in diets containing 17% crude protein and composed of 42% whole cottonseed, 26% corn grain and 29% hay supplemented with dry molasses, vitamins and minerals.
(19) A liquid chromatographic method for the determination of ochratoxin A in coffee beans (green and roast), instant coffee, and coffee drink is described.
(20) A comparative study of roasting, cooking with and without calcium hydroxide and extrusion cooking on the protein quality of Canavalia was conducted.