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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The laughableness of the thing—this ferocious atomy defying him—struck home to the little man.
From Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant
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
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
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 Kuno Francke
