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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His mixture of insult, ressentiment, and buffoonery is a work of genius.
From Salon • Feb. 27, 2025
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
The director Tina Landau, a longtime collaborator, embraces that buffoonery, almost to a fault.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024
All told, the 60-page document features plenty of conspiracy and buffoonery both.
From Slate • Jul. 27, 2023
In act ii, after some further buffoonery by Sylli, who serves throughout as a comic contrast to Camiola's other suitors, Fulgentio, the King's minion, solicits Camiola, but is tartly repulsed, and threatens to slander her.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
