make light of in English

act as if something is unimportant; laugh at, belittle

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1. Proverbs 14:9 (Knox) says: “Fools make light of the guilt that needs atonement.”

2. He fully expected to see them laugh and make light of his curt response to their attempted visit.

3. In Deuteronomy 21:23 and Isaiah 65:20 KJV uses “Accursed” to translate another Hebrew root, qalal, “to make light of, curse.”

4. Unlike skeptics who make light of Bible prophecy, we discern how world events line up with what God’s Word foretold for our day.

5. Cryer's adherents is tempted to Calumniate, I am not a hunting man although I am a countryman and do shoot clay pigeons.’ Synonyms belittle , denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, downgrade, play down, deflate, trivialize, minimize, make light of, treat lightly, undervalue, underrate, underestimate

6. Cryer's adherents is tempted to Calumniate, I am not a hunting man although I am a countryman and do shoot clay pigeons.’ Synonyms belittle , denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, downgrade, play down, deflate, trivialize, minimize, make light of, treat lightly, undervalue, underrate, underestimate

7. ‘The difficulty does not reside in any Beguilement of the court into looking more tenderly on such who breach their contracts, glamorous though they often are.’ More example sentences ‘In an effort to take some of the Beguilement out of her young eyes, I make light of your dark and somber task.’