"invite" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Others said the defendants were so popular that to discuss the case was to invite ridicule.
- He was the sort that invited ridicule, doomed always to be a victim.
- But words created by bureaucrats to raise their "principals" a cut above the ordinary folk are unnecessary and, worse, invite ridicule.
- To presume to speak, as novelists once blithely did, for a nation, a city or, especially, a generation is to invite protest and ridicule.
- He had lost interest in romantic affairs and did not want to invite further ridicule.
- The relationship concerns Glynn and invites ridicule from the inmates.
- To suggest that we be allowed to park it curbside outside our building would be to invite ridicule.
- Awarding him the Liberal endorsement would invite ridicule if it happened anywhere else.
- So they walked away without signing a hollow trade agreement that invited ridicule.
- It invites ridicule from visitors with less imagination than is required of a minister in a make-believe cabinet.
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