LAUGHS (AT) Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

laughs (at)

verb

present tense third-person singular of laugh (at)

as in ridicules

to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter most viewers seem to tune in just to laugh at the self-deluded souls who think that they can actually sing

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Fiction and reality braid in clever ways as Highsmith ridicules her visitor and is inspired by him, imagining a sinister plot (which could in fact be real).

— Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2026
Though Claudius ridicules Hamlet for his emotional vulnerability, his grief drives him to avenge his father and emerge as a hero.

— Jeanette Tran, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026

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Continue reading … PULLING THE STRINGS — Bruce Blakeman mocks Hochul as 'puppet' of socialist Mamdani.

— , FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
We are presented with a few potentially hissable villains, including an attorney for the state (Christian Rubeck) who mocks the Gheorghius’ faith and a frostily inflexible social worker, Gunda (Ellen Dorrit Petersen).

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2026

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