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Meanings of buffoonery in English

Catalan
pallassada
Spanish
bufonada

Acting like a clown or buffoon.

        pallassada
        Usage of buffoonery in English
        1
        He plays the part with a clever and economic use of buffoonery.
        The Guardian
        2
        She is full of buffoonery and has a nice appreciation of it.
        The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
        3
        Nothing pleases the great chambers of sovereign man so much as buffoonery.
        The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
        4
        A vein of irony-wemight perhaps say of buffoonery-pervadedhis whole nature.
        The History of Rome, Book IV / The Revolution
        5
        Comedy became, therefore, a sort of consecrated slander, lyric spite, aesthetical buffoonery.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 / A Magazi...
        6
        Do you not know that this is no fitting time for buffoonery?'
        Muslin
        7
        The papers read every Saturday evening were characterized less by depth than buffoonery.
        Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
        8
        He also uses a fisheye lens to distort the image, reinforcing the buffoonery.
        News.com.au
        9
        There is a time for all things, and buffoonery suits me no longer.
        Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1
        10
        Though I love fun, eternal jesting, buffoonery, punning absolutely kills me.
        The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
        11
        Neither of these pieces of gross buffoonery bore any author's name.
        A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III
        12
        It's buffoonery that may make you laugh but couldn't possibly make you cry.
        Ebony
        13
        O'Mally, for all his buffoonery, was a keen one to read a face.
        The Lure of the Mask
        14
        And his humour is genuine and spontaneous; it is farcical without descending to buffoonery.
        Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
        15
        Mimicry is the lowest and most ill-bred of all buffoonery.
        Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society / A condensed but t...
        16
        Why is it such a matter of importance to him and his gammon-faced buffoonery?
        The South African
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