laughable

comparative more laughable · superlative most laughable

1. archaicFitted to excite laughter; humorous.

   At this our first dinner at the Government House a very laughable incident occurred.

   1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 91

   Synonyms: comical, droll, risible, amusing, chucklesome, comedic, comic, comical

2. Worthless; worthy of contempt or derision.

   “Maybe it made them feel better about their lives that a young prince’s life was laughable. Never mind that my mother didn’t meet Major Hewitt until long after I was born,” he wrote.

   2023 January 6, “Prince Harry book Spare: King Charles made ‘sadistic’ joke about Prince Harry’s ‘real’ dad”, in NZ Herald

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   It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the king of winking self-parody.

   2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 26 Oct 2012

   Synonyms: derisible, pathetic, risible, abject, filthy, base, beggarly, blameworthy