risible

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I hadn’t been to an Angels game in a few years, and the stadium was as risible as I remembered it, if not more so.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024

But the movie feels reduced to a muddle, and its climactic sequence, which ought to have been a moving depiction of love and sacrifice, comes off as unintentionally campy and risible.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024

The infiltrators should expose this as a risible lie.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2024

Among his more risible claims is that 29 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were lay ministers.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2023

They excite our risible emotions, while they are reducing their adversary to contempt—otherwise they would not be distinguished from gross slanderers.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac