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Meanings of laughingstock in English

Catalan
riota
Spanish
risa

A victim of ridicule or pranks.

riota
Usage of laughingstock in English
1
I am the laughingstock of the entire electronic community, and rightfully so.
Naked pictures of famous people
2
I am become a laughingstock all the day, all scoff at me.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
3
My reputation with HPD fluctuated somewhere between a laughingstock and a fuckup.
Tough customer: a novel
4
Ser Ryman has made us a laughingstock with that gibbet of his.
A feast for crows
5
So whither Napster, now that it has become the laughingstock of downloading?
Wired
6
Do you want to be the laughingstock of New York City?
Tell me, pretty maiden
7
If she backed out of this wedding, she'd be a laughingstock.
The spurned viscountess
8
He saw his house unfinished, his wife rebellious, himself a laughingstock.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. / The Man Of Property
9
We'd been here just a month and already we were probably a local laughingstock.
Another life altogether: a novel
10
The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.
Anansi Boys
11
You'll be a laughingstock if you try to travel in those you got on.
Lonesome dove
12
He stood staring dumbly around him, unconscious that he was the laughingstock of all.
The Half-Hearted
13
Your Commons are a disconsidered rump of which already you have made a laughingstock.
The Path of the King
14
The other inmates thought him a laughingstock- askinnybook-learnedJew, locked up with murderers!
The Golem and the Jinni
15
Stealing the blood from him and making him the laughingstock of blood drinkers everywhere.
Prince Lestat
16
Why, I should be the laughingstock of the city.
Youth Challenges
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