risible
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I hadn’t been to an Angels game in a few years, and the stadium was as risible as I remembered it, if not more so.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024
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
It’s not as though other companies following the investor-mollifying A.I. trends aren’t making their own risible mistakes or faking their most impressive demos.
From Slate • May 30, 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
Certainly there is a large amount of jocularity in the familiar writings of Keats—often a quick perception of the ridiculous or the risible, sometimes a telling jest or jeu d’esprit.
From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael
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