risible

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“Why has she entered our bloodstream?” wonders Schoenberger, a persuasive proponent of the play’s enduring importance despite its dated elements, most risibly that women hovering around 30 are past their prime.

From New York Times

"It would be risible were its target not so grave: the undermining of a democratic election for President of the United States."

From Salon

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

Again and again throughout his erratic, sometimes risible and seldom uninteresting career, he has locked his characters away in hermetic puzzle-box environments, governed by rules that don’t always announce themselves until the final scenes.

From Los Angeles Times

This is the episode that proves how risibly unrealistic Kim's efforts to negotiate between two sides of the same man, especially knowing that each serves different masters.

From Salon