laughable
adjective
such as to cause laughter; funny; amusing; ludicrous.
laughably
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a word derived from
laughable.
Example Sentences
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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
As is the case throughout, the questioners—the chairman, played with snide malice by Michael McKean, is flanked by two “investigators”—are pious, bullying and laughably disingenuous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 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
