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 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 Flaubert, Gustave

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

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