risible
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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
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
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
Europe was in transports of laughter at a country proclaiming human liberty, while clinging to all the traditions of slavery, and her risible faculties were really excusable in face of such a paradox.
From Abraham Lincoln's Religion by Peters, Madison Clinton
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