Rather, they will dismiss the notion lest they become a laughingstock in the papers.
On the other hand, if he is wearing it thinking that he is proclaiming how hot he is...then he's liable to be more of a laughingstock.
He, the commander-in-chief, a Serene Highness who everybody said possessed powers such as no man had ever had in Russia, to be placed in this position--made the laughingstock of the whole army!
That I shall be the laughingstock of all Moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause.