risible
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The idea that it can roam the globe on its own, ending wars with no base of power or authority, is risible.
From Slate • Jan. 28, 2026
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
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
Among his more risible claims is that 29 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were lay ministers.
From Salon • Nov. 4, 2023
Each laughing face in Hogarth's print exhibits a different mode or a different stage of the risible paroxysm.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
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