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laughingstock

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[ US /ˈɫæfɪŋˌstɑk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a victim of ridicule or pranks

How To Use laughingstock In A Sentence

  • Springtime for Henry played Broadway in the early '30s and then again in the early '50s but became a laughingstock as Edward Everett Horton repeatedly barnstormed it.
  • For one thing, with two jurisdictions involved, it's a surefire way to turn me into an interdepartmental laughingstock. BREACH OF DUTY
  • If I weren't a laughingstock already, I sure as hell would be once word about that leaked out. KISS OF THE BEES
  • This vapid, vacuous, uneducated, Alaska hillbilly is an international laughingstock. McCain campaign adviser pushes back on Palin book
  • For one thing, with two jurisdictions involved, it's a surefire way to turn me into an interdepartmental laughingstock. BREACH OF DUTY
  • Of the mincing laughingstock or the brisk excise defrauder, no sign whatsoever. Morgan’s Run
  • That relegated one of the great franchises to the league of laughingstocks.
  • If he apologizes, he admits to being wrong (very hard for someone with an ego as big as his to do), becomes a confessed libeller (not to mention a laughingstock), faces some damages and sees his credibility as would-be pundit take a big hit. And the Raphaelicious dishonesty continues ...
  • She is a member of the editorial board and one of the folks who has made the paper a national laughingstock for its thoroughgoing political correctness and zany leftism.
  • Over the past 10 years the Minneapolis Star Tribune has made itself a national laughingstock as a paragon of political correctness.
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