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[ UK /bʌfˈuːnəɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. acting like a clown or buffoon

How To Use buffoonery In A Sentence

  • A bit of buffoonery and tomfoolery are always welcome after a tense high wire act, during which everyone in the audience has been holding their breath, and looking anxiously upwards, in total empathy with the performer.
  • He resists with buffoonery on the set, peevish demands for attention, and displays of contempt for her direction.
  • Like all standup comedians who transition into film careers, he had to buy his way into the business through buffoonery.
  • But his buffoonery (ary?) is just too comical to watch as he meltsdown now between a rock and hardplace, He will lose even more of his listeners (a$$holes) than he has lost over the last 4 years. Think Progress » Far-Right Radio Host Savages Palin: It’s ‘Suicide’ For Republicans To Choose Palin As Our 2012 Nominee
  • The humour of Pimple films derived from theatrical burlesque, music-hall satire and from a tradition of buffoonery that embraced such infantilised characters as Silly Billy.
  • Officials hope that the fines will act as a deterrent against 'buffoonery'. Times, Sunday Times
  • Faced with this sort of noisome buffoonery, there is a danger of underreaction. Times, Sunday Times
  • Oh, how the Simpson's writing staff can truculently castigate styli of pretentiousness when necessitated by buffoonery... Succulent truculence.
  • Aristotle said Irony better befits a gentleman than buffoonery; the ironical man jokes to amuse himself, the buffoon to amuse other people.
  • Even the gents' foreign impersonations, an obvious peg for buffoonery, arrive on tiptoe. Times, Sunday Times
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