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poke fun at
verb as in gibe
verb as in mock
verb as in parody
verb as in ridicule
Strong matches
verb as in satirize
verb as in scoff
verb as in twit
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Kimmel has long been critical of Trump, using his late-night spot to not just poke fun at the president-elect but to also share how the former reality TV star’s policies have impacted his personal life.
While former President Barack Obama was happy to poke fun at Trump's ramblings as incoherent "word salad" in recent stump speeches, Scarborough saw nothing funny in what Trump tells crowds.
“We poke fun at that the egregious, unapologetic agents saying, ‘You’ve sold millions of records, but it’s time to do a reality show,’ ” he said.
"At the same time, you see a lot of mission-driven companies putting the pressure on consumerism as the answer to climate change, which has all sorts of paradoxes within it. We wanted to poke fun at that tension."
The latter dishes out some of the funniest one-liners when the writers poke fun at his extreme loneliness working in isolation and the imaginary friends he’s built to cope.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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