Crossword-Solution: RIDIC 5 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

But her brother said it was “clean ridic’lous;” and not to the last would consent to regard the new laird as other than half-witted, insisting that everything was done by his wife, and that the talk on his fingers was a mere pretence.

Don't talk so ridic'lous! All I said was that when Mary-'Gusta was old and married and had--” “There you go again! Married and children! Say, did it ever run acrost your mind that you was a little mite previous?” “I never said children.

You could give it to the suff'rer unbeknownst to him, in his tea or soup or somethin', and in a couple of shakes he'd no more smoke than he'd lend money to his brother-in-law, or do any other ridic'lous thing.

But she was always shedding tears, either over the baby, or as she sat over her big Bible, “for ever having to wipe her spectacles, and tears running over her nose ridic’lus to behold.” She was pious, and read the Bible aloud in the evening.

Forbye, pictur's are pairfectly ridic'lus," he continued; "what for, will you want the image o' a thing, when you hae the thing itsel'? John Knox kent weel what he was doing when he dinged doon a' the pictur's and images in thae auld kirks.