laughingstock

While the country’s overall Olympic team has been either an afterthought or a laughingstock for much of its history, it was also an untouchable standard-bearer of one of the Games’ most iconic sports.
India’s Olympic Struggles Aren’t New, But It’s Making A Comeback In One Important Sport|Santul Nerkar (santul.nerkar@abc.com)|August 6, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
He knows he’s likely to become the laughingstock of the sports world.
Ted Lasso and TV's Strange Quest to Build the Perfect Man|Judy Berman|July 19, 2021|Time
Unprepared, and a laughingstock because of his handicap, Yarvi is bullied on every front—even by his mother.
A Fantasy Titan Invades the YA Kingdom|William O’Connor|July 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Democrats, on the other hand, started out as a laughingstock.
Speed Read: Kenneth Vogel’s ‘Big Money’ Shows How PACs Control Politics|William O’Connor|June 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Then, the self-proclaimed “hip-hop conservative” got busted buying cocaine and became a national laughingstock.
Rob Ford and the Sleaziest Pols of the Year|Ben Jacobs|December 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
This past week, they did something even worse than harmful: They made real-world conservatives a national laughingstock.
Conservative Post-Truth Journalism Harms Conservatism|David Frum|February 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
When they were last in charge in 2008-2010, the legislature was a national laughingstock, even by New York standards.
Liberals Slam Andrew Cuomo’s Deals With New York GOP|David Freedlander|December 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST
An Indian whom Catlin painted with half his face in shadow became the laughingstock of the tribe, as "the man with half a face."
The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 76, February, 1864|Various
Our Cellerarius a cipher; the very Townsfolk know it: subsannatio et derisio sumus, we have become a laughingstock to mankind.
Past and Present|Thomas Carlyle
To me he is the man who made a laughingstock of me in a censorious little town by calling me "a woman of doubtful reputation."
Three Comedies|Bjrnstjerne M. Bjrnson
If they try to dump me to-night I'm going to fool them and I'm going to fix it so that they'll be the laughingstock of the corps.
On Guard|Upton Sinclair
You're famous, besides, as the boldest plebe that ever came here; the yearlings are the laughingstock of the place because of you.
On Guard|Upton Sinclair

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laughing stock

noun

an object of humiliating ridiculehis mistakes have made him a laughing stock

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