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laugh out of court

laugh out of court verb: to dismiss as silly something presented with genuine conviction or treated seriously.

Verb

laugh out of court (third-person singular simple present laughs out of court, present participle laughing out of court, simple past and past participle laughed out of court)

  1. (idiomatic) To dismiss as silly something presented with genuine conviction or treated seriously.
    • The claim that his dog wrote the poems was laughed out of court by publishers.

Forms of laugh out of court

third-person singular presentlaughs out of court
present participlelaughing out of court
past participlelaughed out of court
pastlaughed out of court

Questions about laugh out of court

What does laugh out of court mean?
Laugh out of court means to dismiss as silly something presented with genuine conviction or treated seriously.
What part of speech is laugh out of court?
Laugh out of court is a verb.
What is the past tense of laugh out of court?
The past tense of laugh out of court is laughed out of court.

Words near laugh out of court in the dictionary

  1. laugh on the wrong side of one's face
  2. laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth
  3. laugh one's arse off
  4. laugh one's ass off
  5. laugh one's head off
  6. laugh out of court
  7. laugh out of the other side of one's mouth
  8. laugh riot
  9. laugh riots
  10. laugh test
  11. laugh to scorn

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