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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 Ollivant, Alfred

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 Jahns, Lewis E.

He showed us the nothingness, the laughableness, the flat and faded folly of those imitations of the French theatre, which were in turn imitated from the Greek.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

The laughableness of the thing—this ferocious atomy defying him—struck home to the little man.

From Bob, Son of Battle by Ollivant, Alfred

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 Chase, Rhoda