burlar
mock ; hoodwink ; outwit ; bilk ; outfox ; outsmart.
They laughed and screeched and mocked as long as I went on swearing.
In turn, a consequential effect is that reference librarians and scholars might end up getting hoodkwinked.
Two dangerous trysts are spied upon by a third and hostile party, whose presence is detected by the lovers who act in consort to outwit him.
With inflated prices, the nagging question was whether consumers were being bilked by the market.
It also led to a continuing guerilla war between the authorities and caricaturists who sought to evade, outfox, or entirely defy them.
Smart and speedy start-ups blindside mature companies with their inventiveness then grow up into mature companies and are outsmarted in their turn.
burlar al sistema
play + the system
abuse + the system
But by and large, medical students are sensible level-headed types who would never try to play the system when this much is at stake.
Not everyone using food stamps abuses the system.
burlar el sistema [Intentar superar las trabas impuestas por cualquier organismo considerado como un agente explotador para demostrar que el individuo puede más que la institución]
beat + the system
game + the system
work + the system
The passwords used should be chosen with some care, in order to avoid obvious words or numbers which could easily be deduced by those with a desire to 'beat the system'.
Doctors often 'game the system' by manipulating the organ allocation system to favor patients of their choosing.
At the centre of the row over the 'bonus culture' is the view that certain people are getting money for old rope - that they're working the system and not providing good value for money.
burlarse de [Generalmente con el sentido de "burlarse" [laugh down (at)] y no de "encontrar gracioso" [laugh about/down]]
poke + fun at
thumb + Posesivo + nose at
make + fun of
flout
sneer at
scoff at
rag
rib
laugh at
lampoon
He is notorious for poking fun at those who advance jaded, esoteric ideas about the importance of studying classical languages.
America is criminalizing those who object to its military plans, and is thumbing its nose at the Geneva Convention.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English - it simply means they know another language you probably ignore.
To find the 'real' identity of documents, one must flout conventions of rationality including the axioms of singularity and actuality.
Watching Ranald drop a rafter on his head, Marion sneered at herself that these children, this filthy hovel were all that was left to her.
It's time to stop scoffing at those who worry about the budget deficit.
Someone ragged her in college and she hit him.
Finally after I ribbed her for about an hour she said that she'd slashed her wrists because of me.
Visitors would laugh at the workman's jerking and whirling with the mould, but that was where the skill lay.
He was sacked for lampooning a Muslim colleague as a 'bacon hater'.
