laughably
IPA: ɫˈæfʌbɫi
adverb
- In a manner that can be laughed at, humorous, in a laughable manner.
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Examples of "laughably" in Sentences
- TUCHMAN: But then some of is kind of laughably obvious.
- The conglomeration just ends up laughably uninformative.
- That's why they love PR so much - they call it laughably, fair votes!
- "benefit" (and I use that term laughably, as the only benefit they can prove is anecdotal at best).
- Will GS get the same kind of laughably small BoA fine the SEC recently levied, implying a federal backstop even in the unlikely event of a successful prosecution/civil suit?
- First, Digg never fixed glaring flaws, namely the laughably inconsistent categorization of content and the ability of a tiny number of super users to completely dominate the service.
- [I use "laughably" advisedly; I've actually had people laugh when I tell them that the direction of legal scholarship is set, in substantial measure, by 2d and 3d year law students.]
- Granted, some TIF uses are legitimate, but even if we assume that just 15 percent is wasteful (a number that Ben Joravsky -- and many others -- would call laughably low), canceling these TIFs would provide more money for CPS than Huberman's newly-announced property tax hike.
- They either try to shame women out of using it, or they try to use it when it’s not applicable such as laughably describing someone who opposes any support for women’s equality like Sarah Palin a “feminist, but they are stuck on hating the word itself and wanting to stomp it out of existence.
- Unlike “The Fast and the Furious,” which played its cop-in-deep-cover plot all too melodramatically straight and displayed too much misplaced conviction in laughably labored and long-winded soliloquies about street racing being the ultimate spiritual liberator, “2 Fast 2 Furious” is simply about the ride – no more, no less; not any buried pretense of actual deep meaning behind the ride.