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subject to laughter or ridicule
The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday
How To Use poke fun In A Sentence
- A pair of suitcases filled with special shower heads for Islamic ablutions , and monumental razors and clippers, poke fun at the needs of the Muslim traveler.
- My friends poke fun at me by calling me a bully.
- I'd hate to have someone poke fun at my Buddy Holly museum in Antietam. Elvis Gets a Gettysburg Address
- Newspapers started to defy the strict censorship imposed during the coup and to poke fun at Mr Serrano.
- While some of these images are serious, others poke fun at this period's overblown piousness.
- His retelling of ancient stories that poke fun at our society is devilishly clever.
- It's time you scrapped your overwritten early loves and learned to poke fun at the real thing.
- He was going to be the one true "seer" -- poke fun at the soft underbelly of politics, keeping us smiling and "in the know" -- the "shysters" wouldn't stand a chance with Jon Stewart on guard! Mike Hegedus: Jon, You're Wrong. It is a Game, and You're a Player!
- Undoubtedly, there are those who will probably dismiss Adaptation as a load of self-indulgent tosh, or as a smug and overly-clever attempt to poke fun at just about everything.
- He is also utterly charming, happy to poke fun at himself, and adept at sidestepping questions he doesn't want to answer.
