risible
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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 story is absurd, the dialogue snort-out-loud risible, the fights uninspired.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2024
It is risible, this episode; Huysmans could display verve and a sort of grim humour when he wished.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
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