laughingstock
[laf-ing-stok, lah-fing-]
- an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
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Origin of laughingstock
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Examples from the Web for laughingstock
Contemporary Examples
Unprepared, and a laughingstock because of his handicap, Yarvi is bullied on every front—even by his mother.
The Democrats, on the other hand, started out as a laughingstock.
Would Obama be the laughingstock of the country if his campaign ads featured a bubbly jingle?
Historical Examples
Make not thyself a laughingstock to me and such Christians as may be here.
AurelianWilliam Ware
He saw his house unfinished, his wife rebellious, himself a laughingstock.
The Forsyte Saga, CompleteJohn Galsworthy
And now she was making a laughingstock of the lad among the neighbours.
Through Welsh DoorwaysJeannette Augustus Marks
We would be the laughingstock of Fairview and Boxer Hall if it got out.
A Quarter-Back's PluckLester Chadwick
They become a laughingstock to the enemy, an irritation to their own side.
Judges and RuthRobert A. Watson