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Translations laughably [ˈlɑːfəblɪ] ADV 1. (with adjective) such ideas now seem laughably dated → esas ideas están ahora tan pasadas de moda que resultan ridículas the portions were laughably small → las raciones eran de tamaño irrisorio it's a laughably small amount of money → es una cantidad irrisoria or de risa 2. (with verb) → ridículamente what was laughably called a double room → lo que ridículamente denominaban una habitación doble laughably [ˈlɑːfəbli] adv → risiblement laughably adv → lächerlich; we got what was laughably called a double room → wir bekamen ein sogenanntes Doppelzimmer How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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They would be as useful as any other royal family, they would know as much, they would have the same virtues and the same treacheries, the same disposition to get up shin- dies with other royal cats, they would be laughably vain and absurd and never know it, they would be wholly inexpensive; finally, they would have as sound a divine right as any other royal house, and "Tom VII. Perhaps the glimpse, among the anonymous spectators in the transept, of a dark coil of hair under a hat which, a moment later, revealed itself as belonging to an unknown lady with a long nose, so laughably unlike the person whose image she had evoked that he asked himself if he were becoming subject to hallucinations. To us, in this intelligent age, such a device is laughably absurd and primitive. |
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