laughing stock

noun

1. an object of humiliating ridicule

   his mistakes have made him a laughing stock

Example Sentences

"I would be a laughing stock," he says.

From BBC

Just ask the Post Office, which in 2001 wasted £2m to rebrand as Consignia, only to reverse course after the baffling name became a laughing stock.

From BBC

He was accused of calling a female officer a "Witzfigur", or laughing stock.

From BBC

Despite pleas for her husband to downgrade, she said he refused - accusing her of wanting to "turn him into a laughing stock by making him drive a small car".

From BBC

How does this history of hyper-patriotism coexist with the Republicans’ revered, practically deified leader, Donald Trump, calling America "a garbage can for the world," a global "laughing stock" or a "third world country"? How does it square with a Republican president playing the sycophantic beta-sidekick to Vladimir Putin, whose hostility to the United States requires no underlining?

From Salon