make sport of

1. see make fun of.

Example Sentences

Even so, it isn’t always clear which gestures in the film should be taken seriously, and which make sport of the genre’s masculine posturing while offering an allegory about a birth mother’s sacrifice.

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Some of them can come off as a bit provocative by appearing to make sport of grave topics in the news.

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“Da”- limericks: The dachshund, each hair and each wart of it, Serves for the wags to make sport of it.

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“You make sport of us,” Taran cried angrily.

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Naturally Trump critics were quick to make sport of the video and still pictures from the “walk of shame.”

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Related Words

• bother 
• delude 
• joke 
• tease