risible
adjective
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If someone makes a ridiculous remark about your risible muscles, they are not necessarily deriding your physique. Risible can also mean "associated with laughter," so risible muscles can simply be the ones used for laughing. (You've also got a set of risorius muscles around your mouth that help you smile.) Next time you find something laughable, tip your hat to ridēre, the Latin verb meaning "to laugh" that gave us risible as well as ridiculous and deride.
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Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 7 Aug. 2024
That law enforcement is not able to more swiftly find Cooper amid a crowd of 3,000 men out of 20,000 people, believe it or not, starts to become a credibility-stretching albatross in the screenplay, but Shyamalan after all has to keep the risible aspects of the plot in ever forward motion.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Aug. 2024
The chamber’s lawsuit is chock full of risible misrepresentations.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
The Roberts Court also has a history of embracing legal arguments that were widely viewed as risible by the legal community after those arguments were adopted by the Republican Party.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 5 June 2024
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“Risible.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/risible. Accessed 4 Oct. 2024.
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