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Example sentences for: laughingstock

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The Times has steadily lost its place among the great rags, thanks mainly to the laughingstock way in which it has has been "reinvented."
Surely a kinder and sadder story can be whittled from the same evidence, to wit: that Hillary, a blue-stocking in love with a glamorpuss, had too eagerly bought Bill's Gladstone-like tales of helping troubled young women to find peace: enough so anyway to make a potential laughingstock of herself by repeating them on television, and enough also to give Bill some terrible legal advice in the specific matter of Monica.
Rudolph Giuliani has managed to make himself a laughingstock to the cognoscenti by threatening to de-fund the Brooklyn Museum of Art if it doesn't cancel an art show that includes (according to today's New York Times ) "a portrait of the Virgin Mary stained with a clump of elephant dung."
Harry Truman was a laughingstock in Washington after 1948, but he stayed in office.
If to "bork" means to tar someone as a political extremist, and to get a "lewinsky" means, well, you know, then to "quayle" someone means to make some personal limitation seem so overwhelmingly ridiculous that the victim becomes a permanent national laughingstock.