What's the difference between laughingstock and untamed?
Laughingstock
Definition:
(n.) An object of ridicule; a butt of sport.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Republicans take this opportunity and blow it, we will rightly be considered a laughingstock.” The bill also faces criticism from moderate Republicans, especially those from states that chose to expand eligibility for Medicaid under the ACA, and from influential organizations representing doctors, hospitals, insurers and patients.
(2) The controversial statue of a soldier hugging a woman from behind in Sohag’s town of Balyana was the latest in a series of statues that have become a laughingstock on social media.
(3) Also, a meaningful border will be immediately created, not the laughingstock that currently exists.” The letter was signed, “Sincerely, Donald J Trump.” When asked for comment on Trump’s letter, Univision seemed to be treating it as par for the course.
(4) But pulling out of this is a huge deal,” he continued, firing back at Trump’s claim that the deal made the US a laughingstock to other countries.
(5) The pair have transformed the Texans, who began to play in 2002, from league laughingstock to contender.
(6) Can Rick Perry – the one-time laughingstock who couldn't overcome uncountable gaffes and wildly uneven stump performances to become the Republican nominee in 2012 – be the Republican party's great red hope in 2016?
(7) Right now, on Twitter, Roosh is crowing about his record website traffic, as though becoming an international laughingstock is some sort of victory for his movement.
(8) Ahead of the game Nets coach Kidd said that both teams "stink", while Knicks star Carmelo Anthony claimed that the Knicks were the "laughingstock" of the league.
Untamed
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(2) Off message David Davis, untamed Tory SAS man, now living rough in the political wilderness.
(3) Plasma glucose concentrations were elevated during the first week in the untamed goats.
(4) Chapter 1: imagine your hopes and dreams are a galloping stallion, wild and untamed.
(5) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that succeeds through a series of vivid contrasts: standard English contrasting with colloquial speech; the devotion and virtue of the young knight contrasting with the growling threats of his green foe; exchanges of courtly love contrasting with none-too-subtle sexual innuendo; exquisite robes and priceless crowns contrasting with spurting blood and the steaming organs of butchered animals; polite, indoor society contrasting with the untamed, unpredictable outdoors.
(6) Charles Kennedy: an open, untamed personality at the heart of the Lib Dems Read more “OK, well, so.
(7) Further, for News Corp to buy into such an untamed media property is to risk ruining it by making it corporate and by definition 'uncool'.
(8) This had felt untameable well before the end and he will depart South Africa, undeservedly, on a sour note.
(9) The route becomes untamed towards Pine Lodge, perfect for a live music jam at Ziggy’s , and the gravelly trip out to the Cape Recife point and lighthouse is surely worth the journey.
(10) The country’s internet regulator has repeatedly warned that an untamed cyberspace would pose a risk to domestic security and the government should decide who to allow into “its house”.
(11) Ice zombies … and worse Meanwhile, something unpalatable is happening beyond the wall that separates Westeros from the untamed polar regions beyond.
(12) Photograph: Lisa Ricciotti It is the work of Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti , a tempestuous and provocative iconoclast described by designer Philippe Starck as "a clairvoyant, untamable wild animal".
(13) I meet as many people coming to me frustrated by the unresponsive state as the untamed market.
(14) Across the channel, Jean Luc Mélenchon, who heads a grassroots movement La France Insoumise or Untamed France, could be on the verge of making the second round in the French presidential election .
(15) In Achin, Isis members have access to mines, timber, opium, an untamed border with Pakistan – and the same nearly impenetrable mountains that US warplanes have pounded since the beginning of the war.
(16) The road into Mexico's Tierra Caliente winds down through pine forests into a fertile paradise where tropical fruit seem to burst from the ground, before climbing again into the mountains of the untamed sierra.
(17) Effects of MS4101 on emotional behaviour in untamed cats were studied and compared with those of diazepam.
(18) And it's not only nature that's untamed in the movie.
(19) Nonetheless, building on the untamed green space and moving out the poor will happen in tandem .
(20) On the drive in we'd stopped for the night in Cody to watch an amateur rodeo with bronco-busting cowboys battling against untamed horses and clinging to the backs of very annoyed bulls.