risible

Example Sentences

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It’s an effective shorthand for what the book does quite slowly: reveal the CEO as a risible figurehead and confront the employees with a power vacuum they must savagely compete to fill.

From Washington Post

A senior Conservative MP has accused a party colleague of writing "utterly risible, illiterate, immoral and offensive bile" on Ukrainian refugees.

From BBC

The Protégé Rated R for risible romance and creative slaughtering.

From New York Times

Flat acting, risible dialogue, a witless story — sometimes when a movie hits this trifecta so completely, it engenders a feeling of disreputable pleasure.

From New York Times

For Democrats, who see him exiled to Mar-a-Lago, stripped of his key social media platforms and facing determined prosecutors, his future seems risible if not pathetic.

From New York Times