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Buffoons, idiots and rogues could bring down a president.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2020

Buffoons like Colbert have managed to appear clever, but on closer inspection there's little there, there....

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2017

Buffoons, set to a theme from Rimsky Korsakov's The Snow Maiden, is a robust, circus-like satire on Old Russia, with a drunken boyar, a devil wielding a pitchfork and a troupe of gymnastic, gnomic clowns.

From Time Magazine Archive

Buffoons That Dr. Bellini was a man of learning and attainments is obvious enough in that he was appointed Professor of Modern Languages at the College of William and Mary.

From Time Magazine Archive

Buffoons were chosen to lift the new dignitary to his throne, and four fellows who stammered with every word delivered absurd addresses upon his exaltation.

From Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles