laughingstock
笑料,笑柄,笑谈,笑话
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- : an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
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While the country’s overall Olympic team has been either an afterthought or a laughingstock for much of its history, it was also an untouchable standard-bearer of one of the Games’ most iconic sports.
He knows he’s likely to become the laughingstock of the sports world.
Unprepared, and a laughingstock because of his handicap, Yarvi is bullied on every front—even by his mother.
The Democrats, on the other hand, started out as a laughingstock.
Then, the self-proclaimed “hip-hop conservative” got busted buying cocaine and became a national laughingstock.
This past week, they did something even worse than harmful: They made real-world conservatives a national laughingstock.
When they were last in charge in 2008-2010, the legislature was a national laughingstock, even by New York standards.
An Indian whom Catlin painted with half his face in shadow became the laughingstock of the tribe, as "the man with half a face."
Our Cellerarius a cipher; the very Townsfolk know it: subsannatio et derisio sumus, we have become a laughingstock to mankind.
To me he is the man who made a laughingstock of me in a censorious little town by calling me "a woman of doubtful reputation."
If they try to dump me to-night I'm going to fool them and I'm going to fix it so that they'll be the of the corps.