laughable
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Lai “sneaked onto a foreign plane to ‘smuggle’ himself out of the island,” China’s Foreign Ministry said, “performing a laughable stunt in front of the world.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
“It’s almost laughable for the president of Mexico to feign ignorance” about CIA activities in Mexico, said Gilberto Gonzalez, a former DEA agent who worked here in the 1980s and 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
Hence, his laughable swipe at the size of the Murrayfield away dressing room.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026
In several cases, Cesarano said that internet shutdowns saw countries' censorship capabilities "going from nothing, or something laughable, to something very skilled".
From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026
“Mice are nothing but little packages of blood and bones, afraid of everything. They are despicable, laughable, the opposite of everything we strive to be. Do you want to live in their world?”
From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo
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