What does laugh at mean?

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laugh at

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. 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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  1. 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

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of laugh at in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of laugh at in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of laugh at in a Sentence

  1. Michael Bellamy:

    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.

  2. Jane Austen:

    For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

  3. Kenyan Proverb:

    You may laugh at a friend's roof don't laugh at his sleeping accomodation.

  4. Baruch Spinoza:

    I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

  5. Victoria Francis:

    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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