What does laugh at mean?
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laugh at
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word laugh at.
Princeton's WordNet
ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke funverb
subject to laughter or ridicule
"The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"
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laugh at
To "laugh at" generally refers to the act of finding amusement or humor in a particular person, object or situation and expressing it by laughing. This could also imply mocking or ridiculing someone or something, often in a disrespectful or scornful manner.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of laugh at in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of laugh at in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of laugh at in a Sentence
It’s totally against what tattoos stand for: the permanence, the commitment, the rebellious [spirit], everyone in my age group is going to laugh at this and say it’s not for strong people. It’s not the real deal.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
You may laugh at a friend's roof don't laugh at his sleeping accomodation.
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
He was just all over the map. He was pretty irritated and the more irritated he got, he’d make more threats, like ‘I’m the guy with the bomb. If you make a mistake, this is all on you.’ And he’d laugh at that, he was clearly in extreme distress.
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