Antonyms for laughingstock


Grammar : Noun
Spell : laf-ing-stok, lah-fing-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlæf ɪŋˌstɒk, ˈlɑ fɪŋ-


Definition of laughingstock

  • noun fool
Example sentences :
  • Make not thyself a laughingstock to me and such Christians as may be here.
  • Extract from : « Aurelian » by William Ware
  • He saw his house unfinished, his wife rebellious, himself a laughingstock.
  • Extract from : « The Forsyte Saga, Complete » by John Galsworthy
  • And now she was making a laughingstock of the lad among the neighbours.
  • Extract from : « Through Welsh Doorways » by Jeannette Augustus Marks
  • We would be the laughingstock of Fairview and Boxer Hall if it got out.
  • Extract from : « A Quarter-Back's Pluck » by Lester Chadwick
  • They become a laughingstock to the enemy, an irritation to their own side.
  • Extract from : « Judges and Ruth » by Robert A. Watson
  • So all this made him rather a laughingstock among the regular hands.
  • Extract from : « Seven Frozen Sailors » by George Manville Fenn
  • But the news when it spread next morning made them the laughingstock of all creation.
  • Extract from : « On Guard » by Upton Sinclair
  • Your Commons are a disconsidered rump of which already you have made a laughingstock.
  • Extract from : « The Path of the King » by John Buchan
  • He had made the young clubman a laughingstock more than once.
  • Extract from : « The Black Star » by Johnston McCulley
  • I have made you a laughingstock, as I promised, but I am not done with you yet.
  • Extract from : « The Black Star » by Johnston McCulley

Synonyms for laughingstock

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