laugh with

laugh with (one)

To laugh in a friendly and encouraging way as an expression of enjoyment with another person's joke or sense of humor. You always want your audience to be laughing with you, not at you. We couldn't stop laughing with Tom as he told his hilarious story.
See also: laugh

laugh with (something)

To laugh as a result of a particular emotional state or condition. I'm sure the shareholders of the company are all laughing with greedy glee at the news. We were both with happiness to see each other again after so long.
See also: laugh
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laugh with something

to laugh in a particular manner. Everyone was laughing with glee at the antics of the clown. Max laughed with malice as he saw his plan beginning to work.
See also: laugh
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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I had less confidence, but he was the mysterious man whom you ran for in the dead of night (you flung sand at his window to waken him, and if it was only toothache he extracted the tooth through the open window, but when it was something sterner he was with you in the dark square at once, like a man who slept in his topcoat), so I did as he bade me, and not only did she laugh then but again when I put the laugh down, so that though it was really one laugh with a tear in the middle I counted it as two.
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