poke fun

How To Use poke fun In A Sentence

• Again and again these feminist lexicographers refuse and indeed poke fun at the authoritative pronouncements of mainstream lexicography.
• Her novels poke fun at the upper class.
• Don't poke fun at me.
• OK, it's easy to poke fun.
• Loyalty, patriotism, the old school tie these were all things at which we loved, in our superior way, to poke fun.
• It's one thing to poke fun at a badly rendered tattoo, but quite another to say that it is stupid to tattoo, pierce, or scarify your body. Keeping it Reeled In: Hope or Delusion?
• Esprit de l'escalier it may've been, but I found myself, days later, wondering why exactly it was that we should feel at all shamefaced about our singular collective ability to guy, to poke fun, to take the piss and otherwise generally excoriate. Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain
• Set on Labor Day weekend in 1988, it seems content to poke fun at the clothes -- a cross between early MTV and Miami Vice (which was conceived as "MTV cops") -- and to package some of the more listenable (if inconsequential) music of the era around a joke-challenged romantic story. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Take Me Home Tonight
• So is it any different when a short Leroy Anderson piece that parodies or tries to pay homage to a dance form like the saraband, is that any different, really, than Mozart and would poke fun at the form, or Brahms, or Schubert, or Mahler? Leroy Anderson: Master of the Miniature
• All his business partners poke fun of him behind his back.