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
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
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
Other writers in 1782, however, exerted their risible muscles much more vigorously than Malone did.
From Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) by James M. Kuist
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