Modifies a noun

• dialog: And Diesel is an imposing screen presence even when growling risible dialog.

• attempt: Mike Ashman makes a rough-hewn and risible attempt at drawing characterisation and making a theatrical entity out of the piece.

• thinking: It is inverted, arrogant, perverted, risible, humanist thinking that imagines that it implies merit.

• error: I admire your solidarity with your fellow Guardianistas: if one hack makes risible factual errors, all must make risible factual errors.

• nature: Sufficiently apprised of the risible nature of my enquiries, he holds all the cards and knows it, I am a green acolyte.

• level: This is a risible level of commitment for a national champion of the internet.

Modifying Another Word

• frankly: Hence all the fancy projections of fabulous economic returns are quite frankly risible.

• often: Byatt seldom meets an adjective or adverb she doesn't like, and the result is often risible rather than revelatory.

• even: It's uninspiringly generic, but delivered with such cumbersome and charmless aggression that it soon becomes irksome, even risible in places.

• alternately: Your definition of English is alternately risible or repugnant, if you meant it in earnest.

• rather: This proliferation makes rather risible the Guardian's expressions of expletive fatigue in relation to Gordon Ramsay's television appearances.

Used with adjective complement

• become: They watched him with a kind of suppressed excitement and became risible with his every word and gesture.

• seem: These yearly keeps may seem risible to some, but they are a means of bringing people together in an increasingly disjointed society.