figure of fun
Example Sentences
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But the stakes are too high to treat him as a figure of fun — and I say this as someone whose foundational story as a professional writer involved concocting Trump jokes.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2024
For many, she was a figure of fun.
From Reuters • Sep. 5, 2022
He wants to treat Thor as a figure of fun but also to restore to him a dimension of the pop-cultural grandeur that no Avenger, even a retired Avenger, can do without for long.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2022
He had not just become a bit-part player in Manchester United’s eyes; he had, to the wider world, become something close to a figure of fun.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2021
A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
