laughable
adjective
such as to cause laughter; funny; amusing; ludicrous.
laughableness
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a word derived from
laughable.
Example Sentences
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For downright laughableness and ludicrity the Charlie Chaplin walk has nothing on the Shakleton gliding-wabble.
From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Lewis E. Jahns
But Collins’s eyes had read health, vigour, and long life, as well as laughableness of appearance and action in the long-eared hybrid.
From Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London
The clown's lips were very sober in spite of the general laughableness of his face, but as he kept looking at Jerry a smile started right at the corners of his mouth and then disappeared.
From The Circus Comes to Town by Rhoda Chase
The laughableness of the thing—this ferocious atomy defying him—struck home to the little man.
From Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant
Simple it was, so he said, to laughableness; yet, if their surmise was correct, it would serve as an effectual preventive if not cure, and would at least give them time to turn round.
From Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant
