Even five years ago, the idea of talking up the Australian capital's creative life and culinary achievements may have been laughable.
Ashcroft found the weaknesses of the party leaders as voters drew laughable comparisons.
It's not just Liberal politicians and apparatchiks that find something inherently laughable about Irish people.
Jack, don't pay your band!) is laughable, but it speaks volumes about the double standards with which the world tackles the music industry: you're damned if you play by the rules, and you're damned if you find a creative way to thwart them.
In a report on the Guardian's reporting published on Friday night, the Chicago Tribune characterized local attorneys' perception of the statement as "laughable".
The profiles lifted pictures of me from elsewhere on the web and photoshopped them, and made me out to be an ultra-nationalist gay transvestite (I know; funny in a WTF sort of way and almost flattering), and would have been laughable if they hadn't started creeping up my Google rankings to the point where, if someone Googled me, the fake profiles would appear on the first page.
Melbourne-based Jewish MP Michael Danby rejected the allegation on the ABC and accused Carr of bigotry: "It's laughable but I suppose in the current climate, as George Brandis says, it's OK to be a bigot.
However, the Liberal-National government's only climate policy is the laughable "direct action" policy, which would see an increase in emissions and massive payments made to big polluters.
We should rise above her laughable idea that freelancers are "born with a special kind of immunity to sickness".
He said it mystified him why any party would vote against it and said it was laughable to suggest that Ireland could get a better deal from the IMF.
A decade ago the idea of a World Cup played in a Qatari June in temperatures in excess of 40C (104F) would have been laughable but the country's carbon‑neutral, fully air‑conditioned stadiums and training arenas are proving criticism confounding.
