laughed (at)

past tense of laugh (at)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for laughed (at)
Verb
  • That, coupled with the fear of being ridiculed, may do the trick.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 30 July 2026
  • Even the president’s jokes about his bad jokes fell flat, and he was widely ridiculed for the comedy routine afterward.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Verb
  • Golf's media establishment mocked defectors as sellouts and eagerly counted down the days until LIV's collapse.
    Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
  • In the early 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty wrote stories denying the famine that Joseph Stalin’s forced-collectivization policies were causing in Ukraine and mocked journalists who reported the truth.
    James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 29 July 2026
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“Laughed (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laughed%20%28at%29. Accessed 3 Aug. 2026.

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