(v. i.) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
(v. i.) Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
(v. t.) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
(v. t.) To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out.
(n.) An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps they can laugh it all off more easily, but only to the extent that the show doesn’t instill terror for how this country’s greatness will be inflicted on them next.
(2) Unlikely, he laughs: "We were founded on the idea of distributing information as far as possible."
(3) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
(4) He shrugs his shoulders and laughs: "And they call us thieves!"
(5) It’s useless if we try and fight with them through force, so we try and fight with them through humour.” “There is a saying that laughing is the best form of medicine.
(6) During well-coordinated neurological and psychiatric treatment the laughing seizures (spontaneous, event-related, psychogenic) decreased and a considerable improvement in psychiatric and psychosocial problems was attained.
(7) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.
(8) Having long been accustomed to being the butt of other politicians' jokes, however, Farage is relishing what may yet become the last laugh.
(9) "I rang my wife to tell her," he says, "and she just laughed."
(10) Best friends since school, they sound like an old married couple, finishing each other's sentences, constantly referring to the other by name and making each other laugh; deep sonorous, belly laughs.
(11) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
(12) I present this to Rudd, who laughs and asks if there was any overlap between those who wanted sex and those who wanted to start filming.
(13) He made me laugh and cry, and his courage in writing about what he was going through was sometimes quite overwhelming.
(14) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
(15) Patients with bilateral forebrain disease may commonly manifest the syndrome of pathologic laughing and weeping.
(16) She could still really make us laugh,” her mother says.
(17) He laughs: "I've had a few guys buck up against me, but that's all right because some of us enjoy the bucking."
(18) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
(19) Harry Kane laughs off one-season wonder tag after Alan Shearer pep talk Read more “He is a great role model.
(20) "Everyone calls him the Socialist Worker Padre," one bland senior cleric told me with a sly and dismissive laugh.
Snigger
Definition:
(n.) See Snicker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forget the soundbites and sniggers, Brendan Rodgers deserved better | Barney Ronay Read more In his final press conference, just over an hour before his contract was terminated, Rodgers spoke of the rebuilding job which was required at Anfield and the time needed and he reiterated that in a statement released by the League Managers’ Association.
(2) Almost 5,000 people commented beneath the article on the paper's website and many more did so on Twitter, with the majority of the comments sniggering at Brick's Zoolander-esque self-descriptions and the seven photos of her that the Mail published, all but begging for cruel comparisons to be made.
(3) Try saying “political debate in Britain” without sniggering.
(4) Also the way Blatter behaved, if you remember on stage, having a snigger and having a laugh at us.
(5) A political debate that revolves around sniggering at women’s body parts and smirks about gay hairdressers?
(6) Instead of sniggering at its misfortunes we should all be very worried indeed about its fate.
(7) There were sniggers, for example, when Trump insisted: “Nobody has more respect for women than I do, nobody.” Asked about the nine women who have come forward to accuse him of the sexually predatory behavior he bragged about in a 2005 video leaked earlier this month , Trump insisted they were all either seeking “10 minutes of fame” or had been somehow orchestrated by Clinton’s campaign.
(8) In leftwing circles it is always felt there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings.” He was right too: in no other progressive European tradition do you find a similar reluctance to fly the flag.
(9) I struggle with the po-faced earnestness of my role: it's hard to "teach from the heart" when I'm sniggering about what they all look like with their bums in the air.
(10) The Chacán-Pi (Making Love) artwork by the Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara has been outside Tübingen University's institute for microbiology and virology since 2001 and had previously mainly attracted juvenile sniggers rather than adventurous explorers.
(11) At this point, we expect the doorbell to ring and schadenfreude to leap out from behind the marble fountain before barging past us and sniggering at the gold toilet.
(12) The leading American neoconservative William Kristol recently wrote an article in which he says that browsing Orwell in an airport store reminded him once again why Democrats in the US may not be fit to govern: their "sniggering" attitude to American failure in Iraq shows that "they no longer even try to imagine what action and responsibility are like".
(13) [Sniggers for ages] What's that story about a house party at yours when Alex Ferguson turned up?
(14) In the end, however, Carter Page offered little except confusion and the occasional snigger, during a rambling presentation and an evasive question-and-answer session.
(15) We giggle at these cosmopolitan class-traitors and snigger at these soulful hipsters.
(16) There was much sniggering in rehearsals as all these posh public schoolboys tried to be working class.
(17) (Roars of approval from the Tory benches, suppliant sniggers from the sketchwriters.)
(18) Some of the younger contingent sniggered as he spoke.
(19) Straw has recently claimed that the report has played a key part in a "deep-seated cultural change" towards race in Britain: "The pervasive, open racism of the fifties and sixties, the pernicious, sniggering racism of the seventies, eighties and nineties is gone.
(20) I'd like to think a certain famous Argentinian football player who died yesterday is sniggering away up in heaven, laughing at how well his divine retribution has worked in the wake of the host nation foolishly not extending him the courtesy of a minute's silence before kick-off in tonight's match.