laugh off
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.64 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] The landowner, Gennaro Matrone, had a hunch that these were the remains of Pliny the Elder (the Younger wrote of his uncle’s body lying as if asleep on the day after the eruption), but his theory was laughed off in the press."
- "Across Mr. Trump’s administration, racist images and slogans have become common on official government websites and social media accounts […]. The White House usually responds to criticism about such things by laughing it off."