laughing stock

noun

1. an object of humiliating ridicule

   his mistakes have made him a laughing stock

Example Sentences

Cruz, although a laughing stock in the mainstream media, is extremely popular among primary base voters.

From The Daily Beast

It was very dangerous, could have been fatal, it could have made us the laughing stock of the world.

From The Daily Beast

Romney can, in one day, turn Harry Reid into a liar and a laughing stock.

From The Daily Beast

They would not then have been so annoyed by an overflow of traders nor been rendered the laughing-stock of the community.

From Project Gutenberg

But we don't want to be the laughing stock of this whole town, I reckon, and never hear the last of this thing as long as we live.

From Project Gutenberg

And if it so impressed him, might it not also make her something of a laughing-stock among her people, as she liked to call them?

From Project Gutenberg

Not many people do that, but those that do are the laughing-stock of the world.

From Project Gutenberg

Was she going to make herself the laughing-stock of the place?

From Project Gutenberg