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Meanings of buffoon in English
Synonyms
Examples for "clown"
Examples for "clown"
1
The clown-car approach-ofwhich the SmallSat Express is an example-comeswith complications.
2
He leaned closer and said quickly, The clown won't talk without you.
3
AUGUST, page 143: Name of the chief clown in the Berlin Circus.
4
Claude seemed barely real to me: a paper clown, innocuous and laughable.
5
That makes three men; and the clown and policeman will make five.
1
One more minute; then he'd ask this goof to let him out.
2
He and Roland liked to goof-likedto have fun-butthey were careful.
3
You gaping goof, I don't have time to explain that to you.
4
It took several months, and there was one goof-up after another.
5
I know you think you're not worthy of it, you goof.
1
I was a goofball, but I guess normal, and people could relate.
2
He comes across as sort of a goofball, but he's awfully intelligent.
3
Last season 93 defenders were dispossessed more often than the league's top-ranked goofball.
4
As a politician, he cultivates an image as an affable goofball.
5
He's a professional climber, filmmaker, and world-class goofball who resides in Boulder, Colorado.
1
A Lord is a merry andrew, a Duke a jack pudding, and a King a tom fool: his name is man!
2
One of the company added, 'A merry Andrew, a buffoon.'
3
CHARACTERS: Hans Matthis, keeper of "the Merry Andrew"; Dr. Frantz, the magnetizer; the Judge.
4
And you are Andrew Merry , or Merry Andrew.
5
Archy-'MerryAndrew,' as I used to call him,-ownedone of the finest estates in Jamaica-Golden Grove.
Usage of buffoon in English
1
In American hands, terrifying sociopath Finchy is simply sexist buffoon Todd Packer.
2
He climbed the hill in silence, wondering just what the buffoon meant.
3
The real gangsters saw him as a buffoon, a harmless court jester.
4
But it is particularly suitable for the purposes of a great buffoon.
5
The half-elf felt cold, suddenly realizing this gully dwarf was no buffoon.
6
He has been called a buffoon, a madman and a Kremlin stooge.
7
A man who is uncommon is either a dandy or a buffoon.
8
Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, is a hypocrite and a buffoon.
9
Isn't there something fine in his buffoon imitation of the real thing?
10
Another of Michelangelo's buffoon friends was a Florentine celebrity, Piloto, the goldsmith.
11
Any old tailender, sure, could be laughed off as a gormless buffoon.
12
To be the cap-and-bell buffoon on which your master sharpens his wit?
13
He was the buffoon, who went by a woman's name, Nastásya Ivánovna.
14
Why have you not asked, O Pasquil, to be made a buffoon?
15
Now, listen to me, Master Bardelys, master spy, master buffoon, master masquerader!
16
Especially if one doubts the Bullingdon buffoon is even capable of having policies.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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