laughable

Preposition: in

• part: The graphic and gory violence is done quite well but its shock value weans and almost becomes laughable in parts.

Infinitive complement

• think: It was highly laughable to think this ' god ' of his could possibly speak; of course he didn't speak to him!

Used with adjective complement

• seem: He knew that in the moral climate of those days such an attempt would have seemed laughable.
• become: In the last few days of the campaign the ruling politicians to reverse became frankly laughable.
• find: I find laughable the serious attempts to label it science.
• sound: It just sounds too polite and it ends up sounding laughable.
• consider: To have suggested forty years ago that the economy was best left to business to manage would have been considered laughable by most people.
• appear: Unlikely, the special effects appear laughable in today's computer age.

Modifying Another Word

• frankly: In the last few days of the campaign the ruling politicians to reverse became frankly laughable.
• almost: They find the idea of a Day of Judgment almost laughable.
• truly: There's one extremely strong plot twist, followed by a truly laughable climactic fight.
• quite: The dialog isn't much better, with certain lines quite laughable.
• simply: The leadership's claim that the low turnout reflected satisfaction with the government is simply laughable.
• just: Without belief in God, it is just laughable.

Modifies a noun

• thing: The only laughable thing about this long-awaited digital SLR from Pentax is its name.
• dialog: It often sounds comparable to a particularly poor children's TV show, complete with dire music and laughable dialog.
• lyric: Laughable lyrics are forgivable if the vocals do anything remotely interesting - they don't.
• attempt: Various laughable attempts have been made at rigging a shower in the past.
• concept: Sanitation and clean sheets would have been a laughable concept if only I had had the gall to mention them.
• band: Q Ball telling me he'd " Banged one out " during the Foo Fighters... Most laughable band on the planet?