laughing stock
Example Sentences
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What the players - most on US central contracts rather than representing professional clubs - did not want was to become a laughing stock.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
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
“You think about two years ago, three years ago, four years ago or one year ago, we were a laughing stock all over the world.”
From Salon • Sep. 27, 2025
"I would be a laughing stock," he says.
From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025
She said he was making a laughing stock of himself and everybody associated with him.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
