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View synonyms for laughing stock

laughing stock

noun

  1. an object of humiliating ridicule

    his mistakes have made him a laughing stock

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Cruz, although a laughing stock in the mainstream media, is extremely popular among primary base voters.

It was very dangerous, could have been fatal, it could have made us the laughing stock of the world.

Romney can, in one day, turn Harry Reid into a liar and a laughing stock.

They would not then have been so annoyed by an overflow of traders nor been rendered the laughing-stock of the community.

But we don't want to be the laughing stock of this whole town, I reckon, and never hear the last of this thing as long as we live.

And if it so impressed him, might it not also make her something of a laughing-stock among her people, as she liked to call them?

Not many people do that, but those that do are the laughing-stock of the world.

Was she going to make herself the laughing-stock of the place?

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