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made fun of

VERB

poke fun at

Synonyms

WEAK

burlesque deride heckle kid lampoon make sport of mock parody ridicule satirize tease

Example Sentences

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But what if someone had made fun of them, or implied the age gap was inappropriate?

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

In fact, he’s made fun of originalism before.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026

“Usually I was very invisible, made fun of, not the one that people saw as this interesting and cool person,” Ishmael said.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025

I wasn’t enough of anything to be made fun of, criticized or lauded.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

But really, it’s kind of comforting to have the three monkeys lamp Carla and I made fun of together beside me.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez