0 so lacking in quality or usefulness that it deserves to be laughed at:
The law, the maximum prices, the threats of prosecution were risible things, regarded by the shopkeeper with contempt.
Opera cannot bear up under these conditions and founders into the risible and the ridiculous.
That this conclusion is slightly risible does not invalidate what they have written in its shadow, which is proving long as well as dark.
Whether one finds such wafflings repellent or merely risible, they illumine the topic far less than the author seems to think.
Although this did little to enhance its cultural credentials, which many deemed risible, they, nonetheless, pointed the way forward, and saw the phonograph evolve into a vehicle of music.
But whether prehistorians and medievalists should now regard such questions as risible or redundant, well worth abandoning in favour of cognitive insights, is a question well worth debating.
I suggest, therefore, that the words "to or" are in fact otiose, and indeed slightly risible.
We appear to produce dossiers of mass deception, whose claims are dismissed as risible almost as soon as they are released.
