"All that will be changed now," she told him; but he merely laughed at her.
The senior official present merely laughed and said, "This is a new style of travel."
And when she merely laughed that one away, he said something else.
Ian, the soul of good nature, merely laughed at her.
If a thing really was out of the question she merely laughed and refused to discuss it at all.
The others merely laughed and said that it had been delightful.
Instead he merely laughed and told Sven to move away.
And he merely laughs at me when I try to tell him the danger.
A nice gesture - or maybe it was merely laughing.
Finally he took the thing up with Sandra, who merely laughed at him.