ridiculous nonsense

collocation in English

meaningsofridiculousandnonsense

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ridiculous
adjective
uk
/rɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/us
/rɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/
stupid or unreasonable and deserving to be ...
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nonsense
noun
uk
/ˈnɒn.səns/us
/ˈnɑːn.sens/
an idea, something said or written, or behaviour that is silly ...
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(Definition ofridiculousandnonsensefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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All this talk of being able to buy elsewhere, because of the difficulty in exchange, isridiculousnonsense.
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Otherwise, there will be theridiculousnonsenseof argument after argument about what constitutes a new building, and appeal after appeal.
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If he will pardon me for saying so, that isridiculousnonsense.
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It isridiculousnonsenseto talk about a nationalised industry being less subject to control of the owner than a private company.
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The motion, however, on which we are invited to vote, is a piece ofridiculousnonsense.
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I therefore hope that the newspapers will dropridiculousnonsenseof this sort.
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We should stop theridiculousnonsensein which we spend half our time disagreeing about the facts.
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It isridiculousnonsenseto talk about 52 million people being unable, because of certain technological developments, to do a great deal of these things.
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There is all thisridiculousnonsenseabout securing that these people will not be corrupt.
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It isridiculousnonsenseto talk in that way.
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Therefore, there are so many aspects of life where all thisridiculousnonsensethat we hear from the platforms simply does not exist.
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We all know that the notion that there is some kind of constraint which remains fixed and immutable isridiculousnonsense.
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Well, that was the mostridiculousnonsenseever devised to take in a people in a moment of great excitement.
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I have never heard moreridiculousnonsensetalked about anything than about the effect of high taxation upon industry.
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It should have started 50 years ago; it is aridiculousnonsenseto start it now.
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He knows perfectly well that his argument is a tissue ofridiculousnonsense, and that is why he is so reluctant to answer any question addressed to him.
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This is patent,ridiculousnonsense.
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I have never heard suchridiculousnonsense.
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I never heard suchridiculousnonsense.
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