laughable
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It also gave the president the exact height and weight ratio to keep him right under an “obese” body mass index, a designation so convenient as to be laughable.
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026
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
"It's laughable that for almost two months, the entire security apparatus of Uganda has invested billions of taxpayers' money to search for me everywhere, but they failed to get me," he continued.
From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026
Her world had grown so much bigger since then, it was almost laughable now.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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