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Example sentences for: laughingstock

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His wild, self-aggrandizing public statements made both of them a laughingstock, and the Vanity Fair photo shoot he arranged sullied Lewinsky's image almost as much as a Penthouse spread would have.
Harry Truman was a laughingstock in Washington after 1948, but he stayed in office.
He then makes a laughingstock out of himself by accusing right-wing "critics" of practicing "smear" tactics and "guilt by association."
Do we really want to be the laughingstock of the world?
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.