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Example sentences for: risible

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It's not risible; I wish all political theorists and politicians would read Chekhov.
When he upends his campaign, yanks off his necktie, and engages his opponent, he's a risible Washington stiff trying to be what he's not.
And the idea that an oblique, hardly probable cross-reference to Rauschenberg's quilts helps Lucas on the path to greatness is risible (the jury is still out on Rauschenberg, anyway).
One's outrage over some disastrous contretemps is alleviated somewhat by the culprit's risible attempts to explain away the circumstances of his crime in pidgin.
Much of it is risible, yet I loved watching it--not because I thought that the emperor was wearing new clothes but because I thought he looked fine--beautiful, actually--naked.