laughing stock

noun

1. an object of humiliating ridicule

   his mistakes have made him a laughing stock

Example Sentences

Some believe that influencer fights attract new fans and are helping safeguard the future of the sport, while others argue they render it a laughing stock.

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"We're the laughing stock of the rest of the world, because I don't know a single other country where this would be allowed to happen."

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“You think about two years ago, three years ago, four years ago or one year ago, we were a laughing stock all over the world.”

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O'Connor had followed the Jets' sorry search for a successor to legendary quarterback Joe Namath, which had turned them into a laughing stock.

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"I would be a laughing stock," he says.

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