make light of's Usage Examples:

"Greeks turn to comedy to make light of their economic tragedies".

who is known for humorous songs that make light of pop culture and often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts.

musician, record producer, and actor who is known for humorous songs that make light of pop culture and often parody specific songs by contemporary musical.

He had asked contestant Heather Cook, Are you male or female? When Cook tried to make light of the question, Sandilands then made a joke about her weight, saying, You're a belly full of laughs.

"Rogan can make light of "NewsRadio" demise".

" Welles sought to make light of some of the more negative reviews.

Aarne–Thompson–Uther type 20C, which includes international examples of folktales that make light of paranoia and mass hysteria.

and McMahon used pauses after terrible puns and audience groans to make light of Carson"s lack of comic success ("Carnac must be used to quiet surroundings").

Cup: Smith"s strike brings Arsenal European glory: Battling Londoners make light of the loss of Wright and Jensen".

The humor is occasionally self-parodying where the author may make light of his own experiences, and it is frequently cynical on the topic of love.

To make light of the prevailing public sentiment that strongly favoured German reunification, Titanic purported to oppose it.

At E3 2003, in order to make light of an extended downtime the site was experiencing, staffers in attendance.

where he would play original characters, impersonate celebrities and make light of popular culture.

Synonyms:

corona, counterglow, candle flame, glowing, lamplight, sunlight, firelight, friar's lantern, radiance, moonshine, sunshine, electromagnetic spectrum, gaslight, torchlight, actinic radiation, scintillation, daylight, ray, ignis fatuus, fluorescence, streamer, starlight, glow, incandescence, shaft of light, will-o'-the-wisp, shaft, beam of light, irradiation, half-light, sun, light beam, visible radiation, jack-o'-lantern, visible light, meteor, shooting star, moonlight, candlelight, Moon, twilight, luminescence, actinic ray, gegenschein, beam, ray of light,

Antonyms:

dead, inanimateness, dysphemism, euphemism, misconstruction,