What is "laughingstock"

Usage examples of "laughingstock".

Before too long the Wolfes would become a laughingstock, in and out of Court.

He'd become a laughingstock in Parliament's cloakrooms, whatever the public appearance.

The stranger bursts the prison (a symbol of this enslaving world) and then systematically destroys the king by driving him insane, and in a public way that not only abolishes him but [also] turns the king into a laughingstock for the multitude that his reign has oppressed.

I suppose I should be grateful for the attorney-client privilege, or I could become a laughingstock of the whole Boston medical community.

It was time to reverse the decline before it was too late, before Russia was an in ternational laughingstock of bread lines and beggars.

One doesn’t marry soiled goods like Vivien Duvall, unless he wants to be the laughingstock of England.

Before I'm done, Swift Enterprises will be the laughingstock of the scientific world!

And if they tried and failed, and word got out, they'd be laughingstocks, humiliated before all the Families.

Spending the rest of their lives as the laughingstocks of history, trying to live it down.

So my patter makes laughingstocks of the local notables and despicables.

Russie was tempted to say yes: let the Lizards make laughingstocks of themselves.

He was admitted to the manager's office at once and greeted by Ed Mullard, a grizzled oldster who had spent his life scratching for pay dirt and finally rode to riches on the coattails of someone luckier than he who found the Laughingstock claim.

Not only would he become the laughingstock of town, but he'd also be ostracized from society.

After today, both the Kings and their Parliaments were going to be laughingstocks.