as in joke
a person or thing that is made fun of
his nerdy clothes made him the laughingstock of the schoolyard
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Recent Examples of laughingstock
Rick Pitino has turned this program from a laughingstock into a true title contender in just one year.
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Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
Louisville is no longer a laughingstock in college basketball circles.
—Tim Casey, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
In defense of Perry, Variety chief correspondent Daniel D’Addario wrote in a column this week that becoming a laughingstock has only proven her star power.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 30 Apr. 2025
Save the primary beneficiary of that public money from more of the haphazard moves that have her franchise in the company of the league’s laughingstocks.
—Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
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Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
Louisville is no longer a laughingstock in college basketball circles.
—Tim Casey, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
In defense of Perry, Variety chief correspondent Daniel D’Addario wrote in a column this week that becoming a laughingstock has only proven her star power.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 30 Apr. 2025
Save the primary beneficiary of that public money from more of the haphazard moves that have her franchise in the company of the league’s laughingstocks.
—Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laughingstock
Noun
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She was raised in a society—a West Indian society—that did not put much of a premium on women’s bodies, where any kind of intimacy was a joke.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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And yet the world is too driven by algorithms, too fragmented in its tastes, to ever be on the same page again and get the same jokes.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025
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President Trump has repeatedly called Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell stupid, terrible, a fool, and referred to him as a person of average mentality.—
Mike Patton,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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That fool’s from my family’s hometown over there in Mexico.—
Carlos De Loera,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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“Laughingstock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laughingstock. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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