buffoonery
Frequently Asked Questions
- I teach sixth grade, so I’m used to having to deal with buffoonery on a daily basis.
- The play is full of the kind of physical comedy and buffoonery that fans of the Three Stooges will appreciate.
Example Sentences
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There are no gilded gates here, but there is one heck of a party, complete with serenading busts, ballroom dancers, excitable opera singers, drunken buffoonery and portraits locked in an endless duel.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
"More Cowbell" sets the bar for the kind of meticulously curated buffoonery people want from the show and any tribute marking its 50 years in business.
From Salon • Jan. 16, 2025
The director Tina Landau, a longtime collaborator, embraces that buffoonery, almost to a fault.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024
“The notion that Cromitie was selected as a ‘leader’ by the co-defendants is inconceivable, given his well-documented buffoonery and ineptitude,” she wrote.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2024
The comedy in places is a trifle boisterous, but that was to be expected, and it does not descend to mere buffoonery.
From Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star by Standish, Burt L.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
