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Meanings of laughable in English

Incongruous; inviting ridicule.

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Arousing or provoking laughter.

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Usage of laughable in English
1
He finds laughable the idea that political freedom is a Western construct.
Reuters
2
That is the laughable idea the Turnbull government would have you believe.
The Guardian
3
Claude seemed barely real to me: a paper clown, innocuous and laughable.
The Girls
4
North Korea has dismissed the offer of multilateral security guarantees as laughable.
The Irish Times
5
He could see nothing laughable about the desperate situation in the district.
Seven Icelandic Short Stories
6
Once again Trout is so far ahead of the pack it's laughable.
The Guardian
7
In the context of a decade of change, these responses are laughable.
The Guardian
8
But there is something peculiarly laughable in the pedantry of such criticism.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
9
It was almost laughable, she thought; but she was far from laughing.
Sacrifice
10
No, it's not Field's age that is laughable, nor even his ambition.
Drood: a novel
11
It was laughable how Amma was always warning him not to fight.
The coming of the dragon
12
She was so obviously interested, in a state of almost laughable self-absorption.
The Beautiful and Damned
13
They chose some laughable ways of showing the state of their feelings.
The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776
14
Their standards of personal hygiene are laughable and their manners are non-existent.
The Irish Times
15
The count screwed his chubby features into a laughable mask of gravity.
Alias the Lone Wolf
16
The laughable innocence of him was all that saved Nanny that time.
Green Valley
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United States of America
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