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
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
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 union boss described the pay offer made from the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train companies, as "risible".
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2023
Which very probably the philosopher had in his head, when he defined man a risible animal.
From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Samber, Robert
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