Sentence examples for was laughed off from inspiring English sources

"To a large degree, it was laughed off," Didinger said of the Bounty Bowls.

The novelist's theory about Trump was laughed off when he mentioned it a couple of months ago on TV.

One can only imagine the outrage if a deranged passenger announced himself as a terrorist, was laughed off as a josher, and then turned out to be as good as his word.

Until the threat of the sovereign-debt crisis became inescapable, this past summer, Le Pen's grim assumption that a united Europe must fail was laughed off by the French political establishment.

It was laughed off as a sweet prank when Christi Lee Wilcox ran onto the field during the first game at Yankee Stadium this season and handed her telephone number to Derek Jeter, the Yankee shortstop.

Thus the Tory "demon eyes" ad about Tony Blair in 1997, ridiculously camp I thought at the time, was laughed off in a way it might not have been in 2005.

Defeats cannot be laughed off, they are taken personally.

This suggestion is laughed off by John A Williams.

She says one recalls "being laughed off the doorstep.

Before the Euro elections, such a claim would have been laughed off by the three main parties.

It was the kind of behavior that is laughed off as irascible only in hindsight.