risible

Example Sentences

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She opposed Pete Hegseth’s risible nomination as Defense secretary and voted to undo Trump’s heedless tariffs on Canada.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025

The infiltrators should expose this as a risible lie.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2024

The story is absurd, the dialogue snort-out-loud risible, the fights uninspired.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2024

Such conditions would be risible by today's standards, but O'Connor persisted and was eventually able to muster a small salary.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2023

But on the risible organs of the French purgative medicines operate violently; and the favorite weapon of their medical service, primitive in shape and exaggerated in dimensions, is a property indispensable to every theatre.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various