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Synonyms for laughably
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : laf-uh-buhl, lah-fuh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈlæf ə bəl, ˈlɑ fə- |
Définition of laughably
Origin :- 1590s, from laugh (v.) + -able. Related: Laughably.
- As in ridiculously : adv absurdly
- The funds of the Board were at the first laughably inadequate.
- Extract from : « Records of a Family of Engineers » by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The possibility of such a connection was laughably preposterous.
- Extract from : « The Comings of Cousin Ann » by Emma Speed Sampson
- It would have been laughably grotesque in its deforming incompetence had it not been directed at human beings.
- Extract from : « To Him That Hath » by Leroy Scott
- They have significant names for everything, and a nickname for every one, and some of the latter are laughably appropriate.
- Extract from : « Roughing it in the Bush » by Susanna Moodie
- Let Crewe cherish a passion for her if he liked, but let him understand that social reasons made it laughably hopeless.
- Extract from : « In the Year of Jubilee » by George Gissing
- Laughably expressed enough, and difficult to accomplish, but not a bad precept!
- Extract from : « Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. » by Hermann Pckler-Muskau
- The girl flung her strong young arms above her head, and brought down her clenched fists in a laughably vehement way.
- Extract from : « Then Marched the Brave » by Harriet T. Comstock
- Her ideas of such a short time before seemed small, laughably small now.
- Extract from : « The Grain Of Dust » by David Graham Phillips
- They have significant names for every thing, and a nickname for every one, and some of the latter are laughably appropriate.
- Extract from : « Life in the Backwoods » by Susanna Moodie
- He threw down his pipe in the midst of talking about something carefully unimportant, and sat up with a laughably angry face.
- Extract from : « The Seven-Branched Candlestick » by Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf) Gabriel
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