horselaugh

• “It was hard to suppress a horselaugh at the weekend's news that Ralph Nader and Cornel West are trying to organize a primary challenge against President Obama.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Could Nader Hurt Obama?

• ““Here is a goodly summons!” said Turnbull, with a sort of horselaugh.”

  Castle Dangerous

• “So many of the scholars we'd interviewed had given us the old horselaugh.”

  Newsweek: Shakespeare

• “So when Synova says "And if you think that the Bush administration has been successful *ever* at putting a story out that they want put out then..." the only rational response is a resounding horselaugh.”

  "I hope this gets you fired, you're obviously stupid.... There's plenty of proof 9/11 was an inside job. Try reading, if you know how.....lololol."

• “George would have given him the old horselaugh for sure.”

  Blaze

• “These are indeed, like arsenic, and other dangerous drugs in physic, to be used with the utmost caution; nor would I advise the introduction of them at all in those works, or by those authors, to which, or to whom, a horselaugh in the reader would be any great prejudice or mortification.”

  The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

• “But he never told the others, knowing it would get a big horselaugh.”

  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

• “But Purdy burst into a horselaugh, and held his sides.”

  Australia Felix

• “We are on a universal automated telephone menu, the electronic circle ever returning to the announcement that tells us, "To hear these options again, press star, press pound, press any old goddamn number you want-and you'll still get a recorded horselaugh.”

  One Market Under God, and Heaven Help Us All

• “Mr. Kauffmann himself seems to think that he has "proved," as a "statement of fact," Tolstoy's inadequacy as a critic by quoting another of Tolstoy's judgments that he is certain will raise a general horselaugh (though, by the way, Tolstoy's views on Shakespeare are not nearly so simple-minded as Mr. Kauffmann thinks, or as Shaw's happen to be).”

  The Devil's Disciple

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