I ask all of you, by whatever you hold sacred, not to start a second wave of ridiculous rumours.
Dying suddenly seemed a long way off, a ridiculous rumour he didn't believe, something he wouldn't get round to.
In the musical, Elphaba's aversion to water is no more than one of several ridiculous rumors started by those who fear her.
Was she actually supposed to chase those ridiculous rumors of exotic mountain creatures?
"Such a death strikes me as a ridiculous rumor."
There's a ridiculous rumor running around town that you're acting as a public defender for some Amish kid.
She would never have gone running after ridiculous rumors, or wept over them either.
Even ridiculous rumors like that, once they get rolling, can snowball.
I am offering you the opportunity to cease your annoying interference, which consists only in stirring up ridiculous rumors.
It's the most ridiculous rumor in this season of never-ending rumors.