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Dupe Roget’s Thesaurus §547

N. dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche, cull*, cully, victim, pigeon, april fool, jay*, sucker*, laughingstock, cyclops, simple simon, flat, greenhorn, fool, puppet, cat's paw

V. be deceived, be the dupe of, fall into a trap, swallow the bait, nibble at the bait, bite, catch a tartar

Adj. credulous, mistaken

Ridiculousness Roget’s Thesaurus §853

N. ridiculousness, comicality, oddity, extravagance, drollery, farce, comedy, burlesque, buffoonery, frippery, doggerel verses, absurdity, bombast, anticlimax, bathos, eccentricity, monstrosity, laughingstock

V. be ridiculous, pass from the sublime to the ridiculous, make one laugh, play the fool, make a fool of oneself, commit an absurdity

Adj. ridiculous, ludicrous, comical, droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd, whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear, fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre, screaming, eccentric, strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird, awkward, extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic, drollish, seriocomic, tragicomic, gimcrack, contemptible, doggerel, ironical, risible

Phr. risum teneatis amici, rideret heraclitus, du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas

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2 KJV and 7 BSB verses contain “laughingstock”

Genesis 38:23

And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

“Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”

Exodus 32:25

And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)

Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies.

Job 12:4

I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.

Psalms 44:14

Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Jeremiah 20:7

O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

Jeremiah 48:26

Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.

Lamentations 3:14

I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

Sirach 18:31

If thou givest thy soul the desires that please her, she will make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies that malign thee.

Sirach 42:11

Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter, lest she make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and make thee ashamed before the multitude.