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
“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
Owner of logistics and supply chain company PS Forwarding, Jason Bona, told the Today programme the incident made Heathrow a "laughing stock" in the global freight community.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2025
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
