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Buffoon

Buffoon meaning

One who performs in a silly or ridiculous fashion; a clown or fool. | An unintentionally ridiculous person.

Example sentences (20)

All he does is take the mickey out of Americans but he’s also a buffoon and a bit of a clown.

From drunken buffoon and Clinton mascot, Boris Yeltsin, to Vladimir Putin, the Russian political leadership has been putting Russian security concerns forward as a political problem in need of resolution since 1991.

In pointing out Chamisa’s weaknesses, Jonathan forgot that in 2016, US citizens were so fed up with the Bill Clinton’s corrupt family that they voted for a buffoon, Donald Trump.

Sure, he might be an unctuous, embarrassing buffoon, but hey, have you seen who’s in the Senate lately?

Telangana CM KCR’s recent statement that “Rahul is a biggest buffoon in the country” has fuelled speculations that he is now coming closer to once his biggest enemy the BJP.

Johnny Depp is totally phoning it in as Jack Sparrow by this point, and Sparrow himself is written as a disappointing, drunken buffoon.

She points to Michael Richards’ racist outburst as another example; in 2006 the actor behind Cosmo Kramer – ’s beloved buffoon – yelled the N-word at a group of Black people who heckled him during a stand-up gig.

Haynes is typically the straight man, Woods the buffoon, although there’s a wrong-footing intro where Haynes’ Algy tinkles the ivories with untrammelled exuberance, while Woods assumes a funereal deadpan as his butler, Lane.

He's proved he's nothing but an incompetent bumbler, an insecure buffoon with a constant need for attention and ego-stroking.

Mother has decided that Suzy should marry the social-climbing and oleaginous, Adrian, who is a buffoon to the ‘manor’ born.

A PENSIONER has summed up the UK's election mood by insisting she won't vote for "the red man" who "doesn't like the Jewish people" or "the buffoon".

Did I touch a raw nerve by exposing his affinity for smelly buffoon Chimbwili as an ally of his trib.al Hacks?

Do you remember defending me when the French teacher said I had adapted back to school so brilliantly I had managed to become the class buffoon?

Dununa reverse in all sectors…and some buffoon will be busy saying we have a hard working government.

For every lucky Elizabeth, who tames the haughty, handsome Mr Darcy and learns to know herself in the process, there’s a Charlotte, resigned to life with a drivelling buffoon for want of a pretty face.

Sort of like Bruce Lee’s “Be like water, my friend,” except that he’s more like the buffoon-sensei extraordinaire in “Napoleon Dynamite”—Rex Kwan Do.

Sure, it would be more fun to write and talk about a team in total disarray with a rampaging buffoon clumsily running the show.

Unless of course the buffoon side of Boris surfaces.

As much of a buffoon as he is, he had probably heard the saying somewhere and just repeated it.

Climate change, a buffoon prime minister and a royal wedding.