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making light

NOUN

fooling

Synonyms

STRONG

bluffing farce frolicking jesting joshing kidding roughhouse roughhousing sham skylarking spoofing teasing trifling

WEAK

buffoonery clownishness high jinks horseplay mockery nonsense pretense rowdiness

Antonyms

WEAK

seriousness

Example Sentences

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Dowd said he’s not making light of the situation.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

After making light work of Cerundolo, Zverev said he was as happy and healthy as he had been in a long time.

From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026

KFC is taking shots at rivals in its marketing, and in restaurants it is making light of the situation, putting up signs featuring a glowering Colonel Sanders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

The studio eventually fired the employee involved, and founder Brian Fleming told journalist Stephen Totilo that "celebrating or making light of someone's murder is a deal-breaker for us", when asked about it.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2025

He was still making light of the matter so as not to arouse my suspicions.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

making light

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