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- noun Plural form of
laughingstock .
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Examples
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The labels stuck on the seven-win Seattle Seahawks – jokes, lightweights, laughingstocks – no longer fit Saturday.
Seahawks Beat Saints 41-36, Knock Out Defending Super Bowl Champions The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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He made them look like complete laughingstocks to the rest of the world!
Think Progress » Netanyahu Adviser Ya’alon: ‘I Do Not Accept’ Any Withdrawal From Settlements 2010
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The labels stuck on the seven-win Seattle Seahawks – jokes, lightweights, laughingstocks – no longer fit Saturday.
STUNNER: Seahawks Knock Out Defending Super Bowl Champions AP 2011
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Yankee teams that have lacked leadership, and a strong clubhouse culture, have become famed laughingstocks, like the Bronx Zoo teams of the late 1970s.
Leadership Void Looms in the Bronx Daniel Barbarisi 2011
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The labels stuck on the seven-win Seattle Seahawks – jokes, lightweights, laughingstocks – no longer fit Saturday.
STUNNER: Seahawks Knock Out Defending Super Bowl Champions AP 2011
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It would never be accepted as a legitimate line of inquiry; its practitioners would henceforward and forever be perceived as laughingstocks, eccentric pseudoscientists on the fringes of “real” science.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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Even a beginner genealogist knows that Smiths are the laughingstocks of Anglo-European genealogy, the dynastic equivalent of a common housefly.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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Even a beginner genealogist knows that Smiths are the laughingstocks of Anglo-European genealogy, the dynastic equivalent of a common housefly.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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It would never be accepted as a legitimate line of inquiry; its practitioners would henceforward and forever be perceived as laughingstocks, eccentric pseudoscientists on the fringes of “real” science.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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SEATTLE (AP) - Darnell Dockett had heard enough from all those whose doubted the Arizona Cardinals, the former laughingstocks who haven't won a division since Gerald Ford was president.
USATODAY.com 2008
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