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How to use laughable in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective

Laughable means fitted to excite laughter; humorous. Example: “Both scary and laughable is the gargoylishness of his face.”

Examples of laughable by meaning

adjectiveWorthless; worthy of contempt or derision.

  • “Maybe it made them feel better about their lives that a young prince’s life was laughable.2023 January 6, “Prince Harry book Spare: King Charles made ‘sadistic’ joke about Prince Harry’s ‘real’ dad”, in NZ Herald

More sentences with laughable

  • Both scary and laughable is the gargoylishness of his face.From the entry gargoylishness
  • How convenient for him that his excuse is undisprovable. Officially we will "never know" the truth, but we all know that the doubt is laughable.From the entry undisprovable
  • "The idea that I am part of an antigay, antitranssexual conservative conspiracy is laughable," says Bailey.2003 December 12, Dennis Rodkin, “Sex and Transsexuals”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry antitranssexual
  • I wasn't that upset about it because even the on-air product treated it as laughable.2001 January 31, Greg Stinson, “WWF fans actually know the WWF sucks”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry strap
  • It turns out to be a little laughable at this stage of the game.1969, Philip Roth, chapter 5, in Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 203. From the entry rabbinical
  • It was almost laughable how cliché the guys seemed.2012, Anna Goldfarb, Clearly, I Didn’t Think This Through: The Story of One Tall Girl’s Impulsive, Ill-Conceived, and Borderline…. From the entry World of Warcrafter
  • He's got the clue 'corn mush.' The answer is 'samp.' Then there's 'dwarf buffalo.' The answer is 'anoa.' It's laughable.20 March 1988, Sam Hodges, “Puzzlers Exchanging A Lot Of Cross Words”, in Orlando Sentinel. From the entry crosswordese
  • "We thought Kissinger's proposals were laughable," Simon said.1977 August 18, Jack Anderson, Les Whitten, “Ford rejected foreign oil deal”, in Progress Bulletin, page 14, column 4. From the entry looseheaded
  • What a laughable request the bride urges so earnestly !—to wit, that her kicky-wicky may bide cosily at home.1909, W. J. M. Starkie, The Acharnians of Aristophanes, Macmillan and co., page 209. From the entry kicky-wicky
  • Despite the laughable attempts at neo-royalism (Exhibit A: the manospheric “Return of Kings”) they are not preservers of a powerful noble culture.2017, Zach Bratich, “Reality Wars: Notes on the homicidal states”, in Fifth Estate, page 40. From the entry manospheric
  • His needs were obscure to me, and what I could perceive of them seemed to me ridiculous, laughable, like a fetish for lace-up shoes.1985, Margaret Atwood, “Soul Scrolls”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 163. From the entry fetish
  • The notion that keeping half a million men in South Vietnam indefinitely was a credible posture must be one of the most laughable misappreciations of the war.1995, Alan J. Levine, The United States and the Struggle for Southeast Asia, 1945-1975, page 128. From the entry misappreciation
  • Later, constructing a notable Taylorian matrix, he argues that Eastonian economic-model theories of political life ‘always end up either laughable, or begging the major question, or both’ (p. 76).1983, K. R. Minogue, “Relativism on the Banks of the Isis”, in Government and Opposition, volume 18, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 362. From the entry Taylorian
  • Not for the ophiophobic, this made-for-cable original features rattlesnakes running amok in a small town, mediocre acting (on the humans' part, that is), dull dialogue, and laughable scenes in snake-o-vision.2000, Mick Martin, Marsha Porter, Video Movie Guide 2001, Ballantine Bokos, →ISBN, page 895. From the entry ophiophobic

Meaning of laughable

  1. adjective Fitted to excite laughter; humorous.
  2. adjective Worthless; worthy of contempt or derision.

Full definition of laughable

Questions about laughable in a sentence

How do you use laughable in a sentence?
Laughable is used as an adjective. For example: “Both scary and laughable is the gargoylishness of his face.”
What is a short sentence with laughable?
“"We thought Kissinger's proposals were laughable," Simon said.”
What does laughable mean?
Laughable means fitted to excite laughter; humorous.

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