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laughable

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1. laughable - Adjective

2. laughable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity. Henri Bergson

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals. James Thurber

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave. Tamara Mellon

I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous. Vincent Schiavelli

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable. Charles Kennedy

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