How To Use Laughable In A Sentence

He wasn't a large man, and had never been the sporty type, so there were no golf clubs or baseball bats lying handily around, and the notion of overpowering a hulking burglar with the meagre physical means at his disposal was laughable. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
It is de rigueur to ridicule them - of course they are laughable loons!
The very idea of a “man of God” and a “preacher” making six figures, driving luxury cars and living in gated communities, with expense accounts, country club memberships and obese bodies is laughable and obscene. Think Progress » Hatch Warns Tea Party Activists: Work With The GOP…Or Else
As a black man going undercover in whiteface, he investigates this secret world with laughable results.
To explain nutty Israel politics with the election system is just laughable. Matthew Yglesias » Alternative Voting

I find the suggestion laughable. The Sun
I do think that between Lysenkoism, The Reign of Terror, Communism and otherwise, all claims that atheism or anti-theism is an essential ingredient to a better, more moral society is laughable. Defending Your Existence
When you think about this, it is laughable but too serious to be a laughing matter. Times, Sunday Times
The notion that bureaucratic infighting and occasional abruptness of manner should disqualify one from high office is laughable.
Seattle finished a laughable 7-9 and tied with St. Louis, but won the title thanks to a better division record than St. Louis, 4-2 vs. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
This abominably weak link renders all passport security checks laughable.
The slugger's off-field shenanigans were not laughable.
Of course, it seemed laughable. Times, Sunday Times
Makowski's framing is consistently laughable - several times we sort of see characters do things, but not really, because the key part of the shot occurs just off-screen.
The hairs on its chin muffle its muttering, and its skin is moist, laughable, and it's big. Goat
Despite the huge vexation it certainly causes, many of us have become so accustomed to it that we look upon it as a ‘normal’ phenomenon or something laughable.
It seems laughable to conclude from these premisses that a and b are identical to some respect.
The play was a tragedy, but the acting was laughable.
Were these times any other than the politically charged times they are, the subsequent media firestorm set off by Miss Prejean's carryings-on would be similarly laughable. Michael Rowe: Regarding Miss California, At Least Anita Bryant Could Sing
My perception is that many people feel that the adoption process in this country is ridiculously ponderous if not downright laughable.
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. Henri Bergson
Sir, I wish you the best in instilling some sense into your fellow party men, especially those who clain small government and free market for everyone but them: Laughable! Is Sen. Shelby Helping or Hurting NASA? - NASA Watch
The very idea of the present incumbent supporting a factory occupation is laughable.
That was laughable; it was such a stupid, bold-faced lie.
a contribution so small as to be laughable
Also the reference to the government offices in Aberystwyth is laughable since the Lib Dems were lobbying for them to be in Newtown or Llandrindod. Well done Williamses
Only months ago, the idea that Mr Bush would publicly lambast America's corporate bosses was laughable.
His observations on the burgeoning jazz scene are quite laughable, and typically shot through with self-deception.
The Afrikaner think-tank, the Group of 63, on Sunday rejected what it called insinuations in newspapers that it had links with rightwing terror groups as "laughable, mean and slanderous". ANC Daily News Briefing
The English may often be laughable -- with reference to gourds (guards), a "poppet" (puppet) government and "spatial fours" (special forces) -- but it does the job. Selling the Taliban
Lastly, he was to wind them up by appearing in his favourite character of Mr. William Button, of Tooley Street, in ‘the highly novel and laughable hippo – comedietta of The Tailor’s Hard Times
To suggest that an exogenous antigen (such as those found in the MMR vaccine) can somehow trigger or exacerbate mitochondrial myopathies is laughable. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
It does not sound a lot, but it seems laughable as a prediction. Times, Sunday Times
Coming from almost anyone else, it would be a preposterous, almost laughable claim. Times, Sunday Times
He is a brilliant, carrying noise on behalf of freedom of thought; and his special equipment for his peculiar revivalist mission comes of his gift for revealing to the common mind not merely the untruth of hypocrisy, but the laughableness of hypocrisy, first of all. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
Doesn't it seem laughable now? The Sun
Bartolo; he is literally "astonied," and Figaro makes him the victim of several laughable pranks before he recovers his wits. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
The idea that charities and local groups can buy large chunks of forest is laughable. Times, Sunday Times
Simple it was, so he said, to laughableness; yet, if their surmise was correct, it would serve as an effectual preventive if not cure, and would at least give them time to turn round. Bob, Son of Battle
The laughable element in both cases consists of a certain MECHANICAL INELASTICITY, just where one would expect to find the wide-awake adaptability and the living pliableness of a human being. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
The notion that a young person entering an apprenticeship or traineeship can bargain equally with a prospective employer is laughable.
Its reassuring to find oneself almost agreeing with Melanie again. .but: laughable as it is for this dreadful new labour hack to pretend that paying to be tied up and flogged is only depraved if you wear the wrong costume; isnt the public exposure of depravity its own kind of lechery (to paraphrase Dr Johnson)? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The idea that TV shows like "Dallas" or "Dynasty" represent typical American life is laughable.
But the notion that Wall Street somehow has a monopoly on "disastrous chicanery" is laughable, as big corporate scandals from a few years ago -- Tyco, Adelphia, Enron, WorldCom -- make clear. Yvette Kantrow: Making it
Fast-forward 12 months and those initial misgivings seem laughable. Times, Sunday Times
It may seem laughable to the victims. The Sun
His responses to criticisms of problems falling under his control border on the laughable.
Given that children smear food into their hair, their ears, along the table, and on you, the small area of protection afforded by the bib is laughable, really.
Aside from the fact that your hyperbole is laughable, I believe it is you and Dawkins who have missed the mark on this. A California Ruling
Without doubt the ranting fustian of men vying for a woman makes the threat seem laughable.
But Collins's eyes had read health, vigour, and long life, as well as laughableness of appearance and action in the long-eared hybrid. CHAPTER XXVI
There remains some accelerative ability, though, and cruising is quiet when our laughable legal motorway limit represents under 2, 000rpm.
The idea that TV shows like "Dallas" or "Dynasty" represent typical American life is laughable.
I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age. Voltaire
So much theatre is painfully stagey and overdone (people falling to their knees and declaiming ‘you've torn out my soul’ and all that sort of thing) that I find most of it laughable.
Presumably the young women think it's just laughable, and it isn't seriously threatening you.
The snub is laughable and something I just wrote to start me writing tonight.
In isolation, it was inconsequential, almost laughable. The Sun
Claiming that wheel clamping is primarily a deterrent is laughable. Times, Sunday Times
If I am wearing pantyhose, I double check to ensure there is no laughable bagging at the ankles.
The defence that he could not use a chauffeur because the driver might leak details of secret transfer deals is laughable. The Sun
The idea that TV shows like "Dallas" or "Dynasty" represent typical American life is laughable.
His tirade against a society which he thinks is disenfranchising young men would be laughable if it were not so dangerous.
We find them faintly ridiculous, laughable rather than laudable and have a strong desire to puncture their pomposity. Times, Sunday Times
The exagerations about the Candian systems failings is laughable. Obama: Canadian health care model won't work in U.S.
Walls don't work, Border patrol is laughable, and deploying the National Guard is simply a waste of time. Natl. Poll: More favor than oppose Arizona immigration law
This I regard as quite ludicrous, and factually so removed from reality as be laughable.
Tests of the Active Denial System, a ray gun that shoots painful millimeter waves, have ranged from terrifying to laughable.
The tail of a greyhound is his rudder and his brake, and the sight is most laughable when a whole pack of them are trying to stop, each tail whirling around like a Dutch windmill. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
All this is ridiculous and laughable. Times, Sunday Times
The day-players were in their same suits doing their same fake "deliberating" and the bad acting bug bit all around in this scene and their death poses were frankly laughable - a good director allowed that? VARIANTS: BLOOD ON THE SCALES - REVIEW
Ms. Massie called the city's 10-year time frame "laughable" because it is too slow to fix what she described as a persistent public-health threat. Lawsuit Blasts City PCB Plan
I think it's a little pompous on your part to judge whether or not strangers at Starbuck's are using Macs to be productive, and your suggestion that all the PC users in Starbucks constantly have their noses to the grindstone is a little laughable. Digg.com: Stories / Popular
And Brody as an ex-military turned mercenary is laughable. Predators Featurette: Spotlight on Royce | /Film
I have never seen farce more keenly orchestrated and sanguinely enacted, the blatantly laughable always tinged with the bitingly caricatural, the fantastic, and the outrageous, without the slightest loss in basic humanity.
Since they have never bothered to go and see what it is like, or to read the Burns Report, they cling to laughable nineteenth-century pictures of red-faced squires quaffing sherries handed to them by forelock-tugging serfs.
He used it in his laughable mea culpa in Florida last month and he used it on Sunday. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, it seemed laughable. Times, Sunday Times
Moria calls it a film that is dated, actionless and frequently laughable. Dracula
He tries TOO hard to look GQ - laughable how he ALWAYS throws his suit jacket over a shoulder for just that "jaunty" look when in fact he grew up as a gangbanger, it's so unnatural. Christine Essels CD 2 Party in The Valley
In isolation, it was inconsequential, almost laughable. The Sun
O'Toole's clear blue eyes and brittle voice flood with so much anguish and pain that even Pitt's fixed pout and the awful lines cannot make a laughable travesty of the scene.
The furrowed brows and grave tones of newsfolk over helicopter shots of people gathered outside the courthouse is laughable. Archive 2008-04-01
Calling us racist is like calling Mount Everest a ski hill, it's laughable. The other side of the coin
It seems almost laughable to talk of steel shirts in these days of bullets, against which they are of course quite useless; but where one has to do with savages, armed with cutting weapons such as assegais or battleaxes, they afford the most valuable protection, being, if well made, quite invulnerable to them. Allan Quatermain
Every track is just a rant delivered over a monotonous beat and the limited vocabulary would be laughable were it not so obscene.
Besides, apart from perhaps Ed Balls, she's the Big Loser from the reshuffle: Peter Mandelson has been made the de facto Deputy PM; while Downing Street's assertion that Harman will still "deputise" for Brown at PMQs came across as laughable and patronising. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
And onomatopoeic epizeuxis (say that three times fast!) is often laughable. Siris
It seemed a laughable charge, but the judge was upset, saying Emery was arrogant and flouting the law - which he clearly was - and gave him 92 days in the pokey.
That fiction would be laughable were it not so dangerously resonant of totalitarian regimes against which this country once stood firm.
Richard Haag's illicit photograph of the 52nd reconstruction of the main Shinto shrine is not an Ansel Adams, but the admission of a supposed questionable provenance makes it quite personal and rather precious in a way that offering a simple project drawing does not but rather laughable. Silent Auction
A good classic cheapie, with laughable monsters and breathtaking stock footage.
That objective would have sounded almost laughable had she said the same thing last year. Times, Sunday Times
His theories are plainly laughable and cribbed from unreliable internet sources. The Sun
The idea that Strauss was a great defender of liberal democracy is laughable.
(This chapter in Sisman's book should be skipped by anyone of a delicate disposition: the ugliness of the behaviour exhibited by his opponents was in inverse proportion to the laughable tinyness of the teacup.) Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman
We find them faintly ridiculous, laughable rather than laudable and have a strong desire to puncture their pomposity. Times, Sunday Times
Frankly, it's laughable (not to mention offensive) to accept the Corps'premise that it's possible to actually "mitigate" the effects of mine operations -- you simply can't replace a buried headwater stream by constructing a gravel-lined drainage channel. Rob Perks: Making Sense of EPA's Mountaintop Removal Action
Professionalism was continually invoked as the primary means of improvement, whereas amateurishness was mocked as a laughable relic.
Part of what makes this book so entertaining is the laughable impossibility of its nonmetaphorical goal: The author seems to have written this book with the hope that everyone in America would read it, agree with all its points, and literally destroy their television sets with sledgehammers. Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture
That image of the game now seems laughable. Times, Sunday Times
Such desperate expressions of Scottishness could be laughable, but they betokened a serious condition.
It was his way to pretend that we knew far more than we did; so with perfect courtesy and gravity, he would ask our opinion on some matter of which we knew next to nothing; and we knew it was only his exquisiteness of good manners that impelled the habit; and we knew he knew the laughableness of it; yet we adored him for it. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
The authors 'claim that the situation surrounding the demise of Yugoslavia and the ethnic conflict in Kosovo is "unique" and thus only applicable to Kosovo is laughable. Self-Determination Must Also Apply
But these are bad times for organised crime in America - its popularity is down, and the public are more likely to view perpetrators as laughable bunglers rather than coldly efficient professionals.
To think they would observe the spirit of the law and our democratic system is laughable.
The idea that you could fly to Spain for less than a train ticket to work seemed laughable. The Sun
Our holy grail is the standardized test, even though these tests have been shown to be laughable in tracking student knowledge, biased towards those with more wealth and cultural capital, and destructive in narrowing and dumbing down the curriculum as schools focus on test prep to avoid closure. Rick Ayers: It's Time to Decriminalize Learning
Conference of Catholic Bishops, challenging what it calls a riot of laughable errors in the book and in the movie. CNN Transcript May 18, 2006
The only thing she is going to do is overexpose herself and become a more laughable liability in the process. Johnston: Palin wanted to take the money, 'forget everything else'
And your assertion that the working classes were notoriously law-abiding is laughable, simply because laws back then criminalized debt. Matthew Yglesias » Also: The Sky Is Blue
That image of the game now seems laughable. Times, Sunday Times
All this is ridiculous and laughable. Times, Sunday Times
THE idea to voluntarily limit the speed of cars is almost laughable. The Sun
We find them faintly ridiculous, laughable rather than laudable and have a strong desire to puncture their pomposity. Times, Sunday Times
Any idea that Stalin cared for public opinion in Russia is merely laughable.
The clown's lips were very sober in spite of the general laughableness of his face, but as he kept looking at Jerry a smile started right at the corners of his mouth and then disappeared. The Circus Comes to Town
Our persistent refusal to accept the obvious in the light of irrefutable evidence is incredibly strong and, in situations which do not involve tragedy, laughable. Growing Through Loss and Grief
When Frank Merriam arrived at room 622 of the Ambassador Hotel for his audience with J.F.T. O'Connor, the emissary from the White House, the possibility that President Roosevelt might actually express support for his candidacy, once so farfetched it was laughable, now seemed within reach. Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: When FDR Sold Out Upton Sinclair
It is most laughable to see immaculate city chaps out here doing all sorts of "orra" jobs. The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915
It does not sound a lot, but it seems laughable as a prediction. Times, Sunday Times
Assembling a motley crew of accomplices, their poorly conceived plans would be laughable were they not so deadly and, ultimately, tragic.
Welsh's understanding of anything indigenous is laughable and insulting.
A royal source said: 'It is laughable to suggest he tried to pull her. The Sun
We find them faintly ridiculous, laughable rather than laudable and have a strong desire to puncture their pomposity. Times, Sunday Times
Claiming that wheel clamping is primarily a deterrent is laughable. Times, Sunday Times
How laughable those comments were as England's finest marksman now begins to show his true self.
The laughableness of the thing -- this ferocious atomy defying him -- struck home to the little man. Bob, Son of Battle
Furthermore, the contrast with the burden put on the public-company sector has become laughable.
The idea that you can change sexual orientation is laughable.
misused words are often laughable but one weeps for misused talents
You may have caught Mr. Craig playing a hopelessly sinister and useless South African Jew in Steven Spielberg's laughable Munich ( "the ownly blid thit mitters to mee is Jewish blid"). Bottoms Up
The idea that such an organisation is likely to have any sort of vision, let alone a long-term one, is laughable.
This situation and "deform" is getting more and more laughable as it "progresses. Obama Paints Rosy Picture For AMA Profiteers On Share Of Health Care Pie
In any of the places where men discuss truly monstrous and dangerous plans, in Kim Jong Il's Pyongyang or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Tehran, watching this hyperventilated criticism of Israel for a shoot-out on a boat must strike them as laughable. Beating Up on Israel
As for your rage against “Colonial Torah empires,” yes I find the phrase factually and grammatically laughable. Motzash Mishegaas | Jewschool
A royal source said: 'It is laughable to suggest he tried to pull her. The Sun
While the main theme is the need for compassion and love, the action includes the often laughable doings of a British royal family. Fair Feathered Friends
The idea that TV shows like "Dallas" or "Dynasty" represent typical American life is laughable.
To state that most of them have only one income is in any case, laughable.
The idea of raising an army from backwoods colonists seemed laughable.
Keep parroting your laughable talking points that even your Supreme Leader RL is too embarrassed to use by now! tigerakabj Obama congratulates Franken
He rapped: 'It is ludicrous and laughable. The Sun
The differences between the Democrats and Republicans are miniscule and the far left progressives and the far right reactionaries share far far far more personally in commen then you have apart - trust me on this, the execssive language and harsh rhetrorics is so far out of context it woudl be laughable if you folks didn’t also have a penchent for mass shootings at the drop of a a hat. Think Progress » Palin Tells Constitution-Loving Tea Partiers: We Don’t Need A President Who Is A ‘Constitutional Law Professor’
I would, however, dispute the claim that he’s paranoid … and claiming that he’s emotionally labile is quite frankly laughable. Think Progress » The Right-Wing Backlash Against Glenn Beck: Stop Being A ‘Clown’ Who’s Trying To Divide Conservatives
The author of this nauseating palaver is obviously so in love with what he thinks is his own eloquent rhetoric that he fails to notice his laughable double entendre.
Look at it enough and it's actually quite laughable, rather than lamentable.
The bulk of the criticism levied against the Tea Party has been directed at their most visible absurdities: the laughable primitivity of O'Donnell, Rand Paul, and Sharron Angle, the drawing of Hitler mustaches on the president (and occasionally on themselves), Glenn Beck's high-octane McCarthyism, the unhinged nativist fashion shows, etc. Daniel Cluchey: The Price of Tea
Try to imagine a man saying this about his career, and it's almost laughable. Christianity Today
Anyone familiar with my previous ham-fisted attempts to establish myself as a domestic goddess will find this new urge more laughable than laudable.
For those with a black sense of humour, it was a laughable suggestion.
The bulk of the criticism levied against the Tea Party has been directed at their most visible absurdities: the laughable primitivity of O'Donnell, Rand Paul, and Sharron Angle, the drawing of Hitler mustaches on the president and occasionally on themselves, Glenn Beck's high-octane McCarthyism, the unhinged nativist fashion shows, etc. Daniel Cluchey: The Price of Tea
It is conceded that Coleridge is infinitely wise, but composes poems to exemplify "prosaically" a laughable theory. Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America
But his would-be debonair, self-satisfied yet insecure dotard could not be more appropriately laughable or pitiful.
It seems to be a sort of rule, that no old sailor who has not lost a limb, or an eye at least, shall be eligible to the office; but as the kind of maiming is so far circumscribed that all cooks must have two arms, a laughable proportion of them have but one leg. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829
This slap is absolutely laughable, and once again shows just how out of touch Emmy voters are with reality. The 2007 EMMY Nominations | the TV addict
The notion that the country can sustain a capable defence force by mothballing equipment is laughable.
He rapped: 'It is ludicrous and laughable. The Sun
I find the suggestion laughable. The Sun
It may seem laughable to the victims. The Sun
In isolation, it was inconsequential, almost laughable. The Sun
The idea that you could fly to Spain for less than a train ticket to work seemed laughable. The Sun
SPANISH playmaker has lost his way all year, with some of his recent passing errors almost laughable. The Sun
Why, the deals that the White house offered for our votes on the Healthcare Reform Bill are laughable next to the bribes, uh, we mean pelf, oh no, we mean incentives that will be coming from the corporate world. Think Progress » After hottest decade in history, senators attempt to outlaw science of global warming.
Fast-forward 12 months and those initial misgivings seem laughable. Times, Sunday Times
Of course that's laughable, because I never knew or cared where he stood on that.
When you think about this, it is laughable but too serious to be a laughing matter. Times, Sunday Times
The idea that a tank is "inviolable" - or "invincible" as some newspapers put it - is, in any event, laughable, straight out of the comic books. Archive 2007-04-01
The mooted valuation was, she said, ludicrous and laughable. Times, Sunday Times
The idea that Liz wanted to pick a fight with her family was almost laughable if not insane.
But then I remembered I'm halfway around the world and the Greek and Cypriot history is rich enough that small insults or slights are laughable.
Doesn't it seem laughable now? The Sun
It then becomes laughable when the same publications are cited as examples of ideal behaviour.
The defence that he could not use a chauffeur because the driver might leak details of secret transfer deals is laughable. The Sun
What's laughable is not the former dictator's skivvies, but military leaders' naivety about the media world we now live in.
The whole incident would be laughable if it were not so serious.
Most of them are former US military, and the idea they would operate at cross-purpose to the active military is laughable. The Volokh Conspiracy » Military Privatization and the Danger of Coups:
There is a polemic edge in Gnostic writings like the Gospel of Mary and the Gospel of Philip against the stupidities of the ‘apostolic men,’ whose literalism appears laughable beside the higher wisdom of the elite.
And to think back to his comments about Michael Irvin's "what they call a roach" moment and the ribbing Greggo gave him is now laughable. Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
The first aspect is laughable, the second scandalous and the third outrageous.
(Reading across texts for a moment, this idea has been adumbrated in Kundera's earlier book Laughable Loves ).
And it can be laughable as well, as with this mish-mash of funk, '80s electro-pop and rock, with the occasional idiot burst of horns, programmed handclaps and dumb-guy backing vocals.
With the introduction of quotas in 1984, reserves have shrunk from a gargantuan 1.28 million tonnes in 1986, to a laughable 16,000 tonnes this year. Archive 2007-08-01
Describing an object, sentiment or situation which is cute in a sickly, laughable, boring, old, shudderingly childish and overly sweet way.
It was kind of laughable ... the eyestalk was a flashlight, lit bulb and all!) The Progress of Klaus Barbie
THE idea to voluntarily limit the speed of cars is almost laughable. The Sun
That objective would have sounded almost laughable had she said the same thing last year. Times, Sunday Times
it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much
Seals can't move into the district and footlik's facebook pictures cleaning what I hope is lake michigan rather than anacostia as I suspect, are a laughable joke compared to the work Kirk does to protect the great lakes. Once Again for the Slow Learners
Which made his comments about how wonderful Haringey is particularly laughable. on October 6, 2008 at 11: 40 pm | Reply SUPD Whilst Rome Burns………… « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Fast-forward 12 months and those initial misgivings seem laughable. Times, Sunday Times
The image of all these ex-hippy, menopausal women screaming that HRC was CHEATED is so laughable ..... plu-ease get a grip. New York newspaper endorses Clinton for VP
In isolation, it was inconsequential, almost laughable. The Sun
Their policies are laughable - what's happening with the lake in front of the City Hall, how much were the consultants' fees for that barmy idea?
In our scientific age with its rationalistic world view, the idea of a person being raised form the dead sees laughable.
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. Henri Bergson
Privately they thought the idea laughable.
The defence that he could not use a chauffeur because the driver might leak details of secret transfer deals is laughable. The Sun
SPANISH playmaker has lost his way all year, with some of his recent passing errors almost laughable. The Sun
Try to imagine a man saying this about his career, and it's almost laughable. Christianity Today

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