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laughably

  • a word derived from laughable.
    laughable
    adjective
    such as to cause laughter; funny; amusing; ludicrous.

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“It turns out, laughably, that an interest in privacy, and staying quiet about internal feelings, are hallmarks of this condition,” she writes, offering a partial explanation for her wariness of company.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Some of the book’s best advice might seem laughably obvious.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

“So this notion that anyone got rid of Gail to help any client is laughably stupid on its face.”

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

Sometimes multiple cars would have the same plates; sometimes the numbers were laughably fake: ABC1234, for instance.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025

For a small man, he had been cursed with a danger-ously big mouth, he reflected as he crawled back to his comer of what the Arryns laughably called their dungeon.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin