laugh at

Idioms  

1. Treat lightly, scoff at. For example, He said the other children all laughed at his jacket, or They stopped laughing at his theory when it proved to be correct. [Late 1300s]

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Example Sentences

They laugh at the idea it’s never been as bad as this, the rhetoric has never been this hateful.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

Because nothing says you’re good at comedy like having to tell people more than a dozen times that the thing they did not laugh at was, in fact, a joke.

From Salon • May 20, 2026

“There’s that one group of people who see it as distracting and why would people laugh at that?”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

I’m not just going to laugh at that.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

He was even perfectly free to laugh at them.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton