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laughable

[laf-uh-buhl, lah-fuh-] / ˈlæf ə bəl, ˈlɑ fə- /


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When she published her second cookbook, “It’s All Good,” in 2013, The Atlantic called it the “Bible of Laughable Hollywood Neuroticism” and said she “had gone over the edge.”

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2025

Laughable describes just about everything anymore, except there's nothing funny.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2017

Laughable excuses when the club have spent so much money and then moan about no squad depth etc.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2015

Laughable though it seems after scoring a record-equalling 31 Premier League goals last season, 30 in total the year before, but there were reservations over the Uruguayan’s finishing before Rodgers took charge.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2014

Laughable as all this may seem to English women, it is perfectly true that the theory as well as the practice of conjugal life is not the same in America as in England.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright




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