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risible

[riz-uh-buhl] / ˈrɪz ə bəl /


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She opposed Pete Hegseth’s risible nomination as Defense secretary and voted to undo Trump’s heedless tariffs on Canada.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025

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

But the movie feels reduced to a muddle, and its climactic sequence, which ought to have been a moving depiction of love and sacrifice, comes off as unintentionally campy and risible.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

The infiltrators should expose this as a risible lie.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2024

But on the risible organs of the French purgative medicines operate violently; and the favorite weapon of their medical service, primitive in shape and exaggerated in dimensions, is a property indispensable to every theatre.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various




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