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How To Use risible In A Sentence

• 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
• Let's examine: on Abbey Road, Lennon was guilty of the same "artsy"-ness you accuse Macca/Martin of: how about "Because" or "I Want You She's So Heavy" - Lennon was quite hands on re: those songs and did quite a bit of the "artsiness" you find so risible and of which you are so derisive - he just wasn't very good at it and didn't really strike any memorable tunes. Imagine no SUVs... I wonder if you can...
• The constitutional position of the emperor was a fudge, the principate a risible bit of populist theatre. The Times Literary Supplement
• These evenings were sometimes varied by recitations from an elocutionist on board; and a practised clog dancer excited the risibles of the company to the extent that they usually shouted with laughter at his exhibition of flying heels. A Woman who went to Alaska
• Workers can passionately complain about some derisible human specimen, only to be seen joking heartily with them seconds later.
• Although such simplifications risk erasing the rich nuances found in ethical debates over pioneering research, they do aid in attenuating risible fears often associated with such advances.
• Fines as set are often derisible for motoring infringements.
• I arrived at the Exam Schools this morning to find that all lectures had been cancelled because of a derisible sit-in protest.
• Today, the very idea that you might use the timetable for anything other than as a doorstop is risible.
• The notion that students should be entitled to rate their teachers is truly derisible.