0 silly and not deserving to be seriously considered: --
1 amusing or ridiculous: --
He deprecated the fact that he was laughable.
But the penalties exacted for their crimes were laughable—and laugh at them those criminals did.
But his description of the barbaric stewards kicking the hare to death is laughable, and in fact destroys the goodness of the case.
Such a ruling would be laughable, outrageous and completely unacceptable.
Glenn is careful to point out that "laughable" is a retroactive term; it is only from the laughter in a sequence that the laughable can be identified.
The results, not surprisingly, were laughable.
If anything, their gaudy excess parodied women's wear; the notion of sticking a few sunflowers in one's hat conjures up an image more laughable than fashionable.
Glenn identifies three devices for this: extended laughter, repetition of the original laughable, and the production of new laughables thematically linked to the original (82).
