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laughed out of court

laughed out of court is the simple past and past participle of laugh out of court.

Meaning of laugh out of court

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.

Questions about laughed out of court

What is laughed out of court the simple past and past participle of?
Laughed out of court is the simple past and past participle of laugh out of court.

Words near laughed out of court in the dictionary

  1. laughed on the other side of one's face
  2. laughed on the wrong side of one's face
  3. laughed on the wrong side of one's mouth
  4. laughed one's ass off
  5. laughed one's head off
  6. laughed out of court
  7. laughed out of the other side of one's mouth
  8. laughed to scorn
  9. laughed up one's sleeve
  10. laughed with
  11. laughedst

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