risible

Example Sentences

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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

The infiltrators should expose this as a risible lie.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2024

The union boss described the pay offer made from the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train companies, as "risible".

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2023

The poor fellow uttered these sentiments with such earnestness, that my risible emotions were converted into pity.

From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Phillips, Richard