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sick joke
Idioms and Phrases
An anecdote intended to be humorous but actually in very bad taste, as in His stories turn out to be sick jokes about people who are handicapped in some way . [ Colloquial ; mid-1900s]Example Sentences
To anyone who knows anything about the Social Security Administration, calling its workforce “bloated” sounds like a sick joke.
In fact, it turns the idea of art into a sick joke: The hook-nosed killer clown of all three “Terrifier” films goes by the name of Art.
Look, this has to be some sort of sick joke, no?
At the time Labour called the rise a "sick joke for millions reliant on crumbling services".
Rapinoe, one of three players to miss an attempt in the period, said her miss was like a “sick, sick joke.”
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