Idiom
make sport of
Meaning
To make fun of someone or something.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“It is unkind to make sport of your classmates.”
“The older children often make sport of the new student because of his strange accent.”
“The cynical critic made sport of the author's earnest attempt at poetry, mocking every line in his review.”
Examples
simple
“It is unkind to make sport of your classmates.”
contextual
“The older children often make sport of the new student because of his strange accent.”
complex
“The cynical critic made sport of the author's earnest attempt at poetry, mocking every line in his review.”
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