risible
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Keith Prince, a Reform London Assembly Member, said: "To say that he was unaware of what he was promoting is frankly risible."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
I hadn’t been to an Angels game in a few years, and the stadium was as risible as I remembered it, if not more so.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
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
Europe was in transports of laughter at a country proclaiming human liberty, while clinging to all the traditions of slavery, and her risible faculties were really excusable in face of such a paradox.
From Abraham Lincoln's Religion by Madison Clinton Peters
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