Thesaurus / buffoon
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MPD detective Yari Babich had been assigned to the case, but Fanone learned Babich had posted a bunch of nasty comments on social media about Fanone’s media tour—calling him an egomaniac, a celebrity wannabe, unprofessional, a buffoon.
WHAT MIKE FANONE CAN'T FORGETMOLLY BALLAUGUST 5, 2021TIMEHe is the lead character — and he’s reduced himself to this buffoon in the bathtub!
REVISITING ‘THE VISITORS’: AN ORAL HISTORY OF RAGNAR KJARTANSSON’S MULTIMEDIA MASTERPIECESEBASTIAN SMEE, GABRIEL FLORIT, JOANNE LEEJULY 23, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHe belongs to the buffoon class, and is distinguished by his mandoline and ballad-singing.
THE MEMOIRS OF COUNT CARLO GOZZI; VOLUME THE FIRSTCOUNT CARLO GOZZIFigure to yourself this eager little chap: high-keyed, timid, fervid: something of a buffoon, always a victim of his perceptions.
WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDSJOHN RUSSELLIn short, he entirely sacrificed every appearance of the warrior to the masquerade of a buffoon.
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANSJAMES FENIMORE COOPERIn an instant the man who had been masquerading as a buffoon was again the commanding officer, stern and alert.
SOUTH AFRICAN MEMORIESLADY SARAH WILSONIn the social display of wit and humour, there is a marked mean between the buffoon and the dullard or prig.
THE WORLDS GREATEST BOOKS, VOLUME XIII.VARIOUSI think you make a better Quaker boy than you did a crazy man last time, or buffoon and tumbler the first one.
THE RANGERSD. P. THOMPSONUrbain, watching the grotesque disguise of the buffoon, conceived a plan.
THE BARBER OF PARISCHARLES PAUL DE KOCKBishop Burnet calls Marvell “a droll,” Parker, who was to be a bishop, calls him “a buffoon.”
ANDREW MARVELLAUGUSTINE BIRRELLWORDS RELATED TO BUFFOON
- asses
- birdbrains
- blockheads
- boneheads
- boobs
- bores
- buffoons
- clods
- clowns
- cretins
- dimwits
- dolts
- dopes
- dumb oxes
- dunces
- dunderheads
- easy marks
- fair games
- fatheads
- geese
- halfwits
- idiots
- ignoramuses
- illiterates
- imbeciles
- innocents
- jerks
- lamebrains
- lightweights
- loons
- morons
- nerds
- nincompoops
- ninnies
- nitwits
- numskulls
- oafs
- saps
- schlemiels
- sillies
- simpletons
- stooges
- suckers
- turkeys
- twerps
- twits
- victims
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