laugh down

verb

1. (tr, adverb) to silence by laughing contemptuously

Example Sentences

He added: "It's such a good laugh down here, with good people. They all look after each other."

From BBC

Stoddard, when his turn comes again, scolds the audience, saying that real progress is being made in bi-racialism, and “that you have something that you cannot laugh down, that you cannot sneer at, that you cannot be cynical about.”

From The New Yorker

“I’ve had a few whoppers of experiences recently,” Pugh says, breaking into a throaty laugh down the phone.

From The Guardian

I tried to squeeze the rest of my laugh down.

From Literature

Can We Have Another? @ggreenwald This letter from unjustly prosecuted CIA leaker John Kiriakou about his prison life is fascinating http://t.co/ww1nZgFps3 you'll always have a laugh down at Gaffes #fakeDCbars Eugene Richards The restraining chair and forced feeding apparatus on display in an empty room of the detainee hospital in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

From Time