make sport of
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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.
From New York Times
Some of them can come off as a bit provocative by appearing to make sport of grave topics in the news.
From Washington Post
“Da”- limericks: The dachshund, each hair and each wart of it, Serves for the wags to make sport of it.
From Washington Post
Naturally Trump critics were quick to make sport of the video and still pictures from the “walk of shame.”
From The Guardian
"President Trump in a reelection rally in which he is, of course, running to again represent all Americans, last night seemed to make sport of Americans being killed in an area of the country that's being run by his Democratic rivals," Tapper began.
From Fox News
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