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Meanings of
buffoonery
in anglès
català
pallassada
espanyol
bufonada
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Acting like a clown or buffoon.
prank
frivolity
clowning
harlequinade
japery
català
pallassada
Usage of
buffoonery
in anglès
1
He plays the part with a clever and economic use of
buffoonery
.
2
She is full of
buffoonery
and has a nice appreciation of it.
3
Nothing pleases the great chambers of sovereign man so much as
buffoonery
.
4
A vein of irony-wemight perhaps say of
buffoonery
-
pervaded
his
whole nature.
5
Comedy became, therefore, a sort of consecrated slander, lyric spite, aesthetical
buffoonery
.
6
Do you not know that this is no fitting time for
buffoonery
?
'
7
The papers read every Saturday evening were characterized less by depth than
buffoonery
.
8
He also uses a fisheye lens to distort the image, reinforcing the
buffoonery
.
9
There is a time for all things, and
buffoonery
suits me no longer.
10
Though I love fun, eternal jesting,
buffoonery
,
punning absolutely kills me.
11
Neither of these pieces of gross
buffoonery
bore any author's name.
12
It's
buffoonery
that may make you laugh but couldn't possibly make you cry.
13
O'Mally, for all his
buffoonery
,
was a keen one to read a face.
14
And his humour is genuine and spontaneous; it is farcical without descending to
buffoonery
.
15
Mimicry is the lowest and most ill-bred of all
buffoonery
.
16
Why is it such a matter of importance to him and his gammon-faced
buffoonery
?
Other examples for "buffoonery"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
buffoonery
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
low buffoonery
mere buffoonery
political buffoonery
such buffoonery
accompany by buffoonery
More collocations
Translations for
buffoonery
català
pallassada
bufonada
xarlotada
espanyol
bufonada
charlotada
Buffoonery
through the time
Buffoonery
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common