risible
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It’s clear that George has married above himself, but his shortcomings come off as risible rather than oppressive, and it’s hard not to feel protective of him as he’s being pummeled to a pulp.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026
Her works achieve the difficult feat of synthesizing a coma-inducing dullness with piercingly shrill extended diatribes to create reverse masterpieces worthy of the most risible North Korean propaganda.
From Salon • Sep. 7, 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
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
He fatigues me with his perpetual disquiet and his uneasy appeals to my risible or sentimental faculties.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George
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