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

Until Friday, these videos seemed merely risible, the work of an ersatz journalist so naïve that he appears startlingly unaware of the long history of gullible Westerners falling for such cherry-picked displays of Soviet majesty.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2024

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

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2024

The union boss described the pay offer made from the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train companies, as "risible".

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2023

Each laughing face in Hogarth's print exhibits a different mode or a different stage of the risible paroxysm.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various