If you laughingly refer to something with a particular name or description, the description is not appropriate and you think that this is either amusing or annoying.
I spent much of what I laughingly call 'the holidays' working through 621 pages oftypescript.
What I laughingly refer to as my garden is a corner lot by our postage-stamp sizehouse.
Examples of 'laughingly' in a sentence
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They had been on her mind night and day - in the steam room, playing tennis, being massaged, even during what was laughingly called dinner.
St. James, Ian FINAL RESORT (2001)
They'd just opened it for what's laughingly called the summer season.