punchinello
Example Sentences
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No sympathy, no best wishes rose to greet brown, broad-shouldered Champion Max Baer as that prime poseur, playboy and punchinello of the U. S. prize ring parted the ropes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like a maddened punchinello, he flailed at the gathering crowds of refugees, screaming at them to back away from the bank.
From Time Magazine Archive
She went by as if she had not seen us, her curiously mahogany face more of the punchinello type than ever—yet somehow I could not feel but that most of this anger was assumed.
From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The people who had crowded in to look at him began to laugh when they saw how small he was, how pale and ugly like a punchinello.
From Under the Shadow of Etna Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga by Giovanni Verga
She went to look for playthings—a punchinello, a collection of images, and spread them out on the bed in order to amuse him.
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert
