laughing stock
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In a July 4, 2013, email to Nikolic, Epstein wrote: “Bill risks going from richest man to biggest hypocrite, melinda a laughing stock, pledges will disappear as a result.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
“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.”
From Salon • Sep. 27, 2025
O'Connor had followed the Jets' sorry search for a successor to legendary quarterback Joe Namath, which had turned them into a laughing stock.
From BBC • Sep. 7, 2025
Just ask the Post Office, which in 2001 wasted £2m to rebrand as Consignia, only to reverse course after the baffling name became a laughing stock.
From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025
It must have looked pretty daft from his side, and if he hadn’t been such a decent type, I’d have been a laughing stock in no time.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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