Examples of laughingstock in a Sentence
The team has become the laughingstock of the league.
The mayor became a laughingstock.
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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.
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Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
Louisville is no longer a laughingstock in college basketball circles.
—Tim Casey, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
The former Florida Gator has seen the club go from a laughingstock to a contender.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2025
Despite looking for ways to polish his resume for a potential presidential run, Pritzker has yet to embrace an across-the-board overhaul of the free-wheeling political atmosphere that makes Illinois a national laughingstock.
—Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
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Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
Louisville is no longer a laughingstock in college basketball circles.
—Tim Casey, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
The former Florida Gator has seen the club go from a laughingstock to a contender.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2025
Despite looking for ways to polish his resume for a potential presidential run, Pritzker has yet to embrace an across-the-board overhaul of the free-wheeling political atmosphere that makes Illinois a national laughingstock.
—Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
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“Laughingstock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laughingstock. Accessed 3 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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