Examples of laughingstock in a Sentence
The team has become the laughingstock of the league.
The mayor became a laughingstock.
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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.
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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
Against all odds, the Pistons surged to a 44-38 record, securing the No. 6 seed in the Eastern Conference and transforming from league laughingstock to playoff contenders.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
Instead of earning more respect from the rest of the world, as Trump had promised, his vows to take over Greenland, retake the Panama Canal and make Canada the 51st U.S. state have made America a laughingstock abroad.
—Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
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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
Against all odds, the Pistons surged to a 44-38 record, securing the No. 6 seed in the Eastern Conference and transforming from league laughingstock to playoff contenders.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
Instead of earning more respect from the rest of the world, as Trump had promised, his vows to take over Greenland, retake the Panama Canal and make Canada the 51st U.S. state have made America a laughingstock abroad.
—Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
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“Laughingstock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laughingstock. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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laughingstock
noun
laugh·ing·stock
ˈlaf-iŋ-ˌstäk 
ˈlȧf-
: a person or thing that is made fun of
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