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
Far-sighted folks became aware that the pretty tricks of the puppets were due to an English punchinello.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
She sat very rigid, far forward on the bench, compressed into a terrible corset which forced her breast and back into the humps of a punchinello; her legs hanging just short of the floor.
From The Idol of Paris by Bernhardt, Sarah
He is neither a gentleman in manner nor in feeling, but a sort of buffoon, a punchinello, a pantaloon.
From Twenty Years After by Dumas père, Alexandre
