laughing stock

Example Sentences

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In a July 4, 2013, email to Nikolic, Epstein wrote: “Bill risks going from richest man to biggest hypocrite, melinda a laughing stock, pledges will disappear as a result.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

He told the BBC: "LGR is dead. The government has just folded. They made themselves a total laughing stock."

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

The issue was resolved three days before the game but left a stain on the Welsh game, with captain Ken Owens warning the nation had become the "laughing stock of world rugby".

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2025

In fact, he was featured in several Hollywood pictures that he wasn't interested in and felt the movies made him a laughing stock.

From Salon • Nov. 14, 2024

It must have looked pretty daft from his side, and if he hadn’t been such a decent type, I’d have been a laughing stock in no time.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro