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laughable - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective
from The Century Dictionary.
laughable story; a laughable scene. Synonyms Ridiculous, Comical , etc. See ludicrous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective Worthless ; worthy of contempt or derision .adjective laughter ; humorous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective adjective
Etymologies
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From laugh + -able .
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Examples
But what we spoke of as laughable in the whole affair is, that Master Pope neither had then read one line of Pindar, nor ever read one line of Pindar: and reason good; for at that time he could not read the simple Homeric Greek; while the Greek of Pindar exceeds all other Greek in difficulty, excepting, perhaps, a few amongst the tragic choruses, which are difficult for the very same reason -- lyric abruptness, lyric involution, and lyric obscurity of transition.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
Most laughable is the authors point that these "elite" "Euro-American" cities have had that attitude since the American Revolution.
Euro-America, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
And laughable is exactly what it would be to him because his show is getting a ton of free press.
Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog? Erica Kennedy 2010
And laughable is exactly what it would be to him because his show is getting a ton of free press.
Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog? Erica Kennedy 2010
And laughable is exactly what it would be to him because his show is getting a ton of free press.
Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog? Erica Kennedy 2010
What 's laughable is that even those asking the government to leave their healthcare alone, are on medicare.!!!
GOP senator blasts Dems health care proposals 2009
The typical Saturday Nightmares would feature a movie of varying quality (some were legitimately terrifying, while others were just plain laughable ).
Saturday Nightmares Memories - The Retroist 2010
And laughable is exactly what it would be to him because his show is getting a ton of free press.
Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog? Erica Kennedy 2010
Calling chemical rockets laughable is a laughable statement.
Beam me up Wayne - NASA Watch 2009
And laughable is exactly what it would be to him because his show is getting a ton of free press.
Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog? Erica Kennedy 2010
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