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Synonyms for risible

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Synonyms for risible

The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Synonyms for risible

arousing or provoking laughter

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a boring Ajax coach in when technically Davinson midfield Herrera, and to the fall-out Mourinho United have invested a risible amount at centre-half since Ferguson headed upstairs in 2013
For a complicated text like Brains Confounded and an uneven one like Risible Rhymes, the translation is thankfully reliable and delightfully readable.
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said: "These claims are frankly risible. We recently jointly launched our new Strategic Framework for Agriculture with the FUW and NFU Cymru.
"Cast-iron proof the House of Windsor is advised by backward-looking, insular, clubby courtiers - and talk of 'modernisation' is risible" Janet Street-Porter on the Order of Merit, of which there's only one woman.
Indeed, Heigl's performance as a coolly murderous model housewife is the only real reason to even consider watching "Home Sweet Hell," an otherwise flailing and risible tale of adultery, extortion and suburban malaise that suggests a poor woman's "Cone Girl." Already out on VOD ahead of its March 13 theatrical release, this dismal stab at a darkly comic thriller is hardly the vehicle to resuscitate its lead actress's bigscreen career, but it's unlikely to do much for anyone else's, either.
However, his pleas are nothing if not risible as he declares his support for private enterprise in which he claims 'an unshakeable faith.'.
Illustrations for the first book have a rather awkward and self conscious feel and seem to magnify simple and everyday occurrences into faintly risible moments that lack real empathy.
A risible publicity blurb invokes Xenakis and Prince but none of the nine works on this disc resemble either the Greek's rebarbative doodling or the yearning eroticism of Minneapolis's pop poseur.
<![CDATA[ aPalestinian Arab territory occupied by Israela is more than a risible lie of history.
"It was risible the attacks, but I'm glad it came out.
EVERTON chief executive Robert Elstone yesterday dismissed "risible" calls for the appointment of an interim board to oversee the sale of the club.
And while his previous efforts were huge popcorn blockbusters, this risible effort is nothing more than an extravagant waste of time.