Antonyms for laughingstock

Grammar : Noun

Spell : laf-ing-stok, lah-fing-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈlæf ɪŋˌstɒk, ˈlɑ fɪŋ-

seriousness

Definition of laughingstock

noun fool

Example sentences :

Make not thyself a laughingstock to me and such Christians as may be here.
Extract from : « Aurelian » by William Ware

He saw his house unfinished, his wife rebellious, himself a laughingstock.
Extract from : « The Forsyte Saga, Complete » by John Galsworthy

And now she was making a laughingstock of the lad among the neighbours.
Extract from : « Through Welsh Doorways » by Jeannette Augustus Marks

We would be the laughingstock of Fairview and Boxer Hall if it got out.
Extract from : « A Quarter-Back's Pluck » by Lester Chadwick

They become a laughingstock to the enemy, an irritation to their own side.
Extract from : « Judges and Ruth » by Robert A. Watson

So all this made him rather a laughingstock among the regular hands.
Extract from : « Seven Frozen Sailors » by George Manville Fenn

But the news when it spread next morning made them the laughingstock of all creation.
Extract from : « On Guard » by Upton Sinclair

Your Commons are a disconsidered rump of which already you have made a laughingstock.
Extract from : « The Path of the King » by John Buchan

He had made the young clubman a laughingstock more than once.
Extract from : « The Black Star » by Johnston McCulley

I have made you a laughingstock, as I promised, but I am not done with you yet.
Extract from : « The Black Star » by Johnston McCulley

Synonyms for laughingstock

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