risible
adjective
causing or capable of causing laughter; laughable; ludicrous.
risibly
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a word derived from
risible.
Example Sentences
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That’s also why the cocksure predictions issuing from Davos year after year are so risibly unreliable, the vision of the future so clouded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
This is the episode that proves how risibly unrealistic Kim's efforts to negotiate between two sides of the same man, especially knowing that each serves different masters.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2022
His case was risibly weak, as was the National Intelligence Estimate.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2021
The tournament and TV pretended, risibly, that Navratilova and McEnroe had broken hitherto unknown “safety protocols” – not what they actually did, which was to embarrass Court.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2020
By early 2006, Cornwall Capital had grown its stash to almost $30 million, but even that, to the desks inside the Wall Street firms that sold credit default swaps, was a risibly small sum.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
