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Also, make little of . Treat as unimportant, as in He made light of his allergies , or She made little of the fact that she'd won . The first term, which uses light in the sense of “trivial,” was first recorded in William Tyndale's 1526 Bible translation (Matthew 22:5), in the parable of the wedding feast, where the invited guests reject the king's invitation: “They made light of it and went their ways.” The variant dates from the early 1800s. For an antonym, see make much of .

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“We wanted to take an unusual current event and make light of it and stir up some support for some penguins that are endangered and threatened to go extinct,” David Schutt, executive director of Penguins International, said in an interview.

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I don’t want to dumb this administration down or make light of their reprehensible actions, only give those who may be fearful or feel lost a little bit of accessible guidance to dip their toe into the muck.

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Some people are of course worse off, and I don’t mean to make light of that.

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In a quote-tweet, ADL CEO Johnathan Greenblatt warned Musk that it was “inappropriate and offensive to make light of..a singularly evil event.”

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“Trying to make light of the situation,” she wrote.

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