risible

How To Use risible In A Sentence

• The story was nicely timed in public relations terms to swing media coverage away from his risible performance at the tribunal last week, when he was unable to recall matters of facts on a large number of occasions.
• The very idea of Chef's Theater is so risible that we cannot be sure that the whole thing isn't merely an elaborate, brilliant hoax - indeed we desperately hope it is one.
• Furthermore, compared to the resources available to the alcohol industry to send out that message, the resources available to governmental organisations to imprint a health warning were risible.
• This World Cup started as it was to end - with a risible penalty from a ridiculously coiffured superstar.
• That first claim is arguable, the second risible. Times, Sunday Times
• This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement. How Not to be a Writer
• Words Containing One Basic Root canine cynic ` dog 'febrile pyretic ` fever' lingual glossal ` tongue 'peculiar idiotic ` one's own, private' popular demotic ` people 'position thesis ` place, put' rabies mania ` madness 'regal basilic ` king' risible gelastic ` laugh 'scientism gnosticism ` know' stellar astral ` star 'terrene chthonic ` earth' testis orchid ` testis ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3
• After its risible opening - Princeton admissions officers rifling through applications under cloying voiceover - the movie only sinks lower.
• The common construction put upon the expression, "_rule with rigor_," and an inference drawn from it, have an air so oracular, as quite to overcharge risibles of ordinary calibre, if such an effect were not forestalled by its impiety. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
• The special effects were not unconvincing; they were risible, especially the scenes of the wealthy giantess stalking the countryside.