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Meanings of buffoonery in English
Catalan
pallassada Spanish
bufonada Synonyms
Examples for "prank"
Examples for "prank"
1
The prank caller said that his plan could have easily gone wrong.
2
Each of the boys in turn became the victim of some prank.
3
Whatever had happened wasn't a prank gone wrong that I'd orchestrated myself.
4
And anyway, is there really any such thing as an innocent prank?
5
Real funny. Tony had to admit it was a pretty good prank.
1
I am happy to relate that it proved a very popular frivolity.
2
From the depths of tenderness she passed to the shallows of frivolity.
3
Naughtiness and frivolity are different, and I was always deeply in earnest.
4
Certain elements at the talks did not participate, being against such frivolity.
5
The count and I have but little time to give to frivolity.
1
You think I won't get heckled when I'm up on stage clowning?'
2
For all his clowning, Count, you might trust him with your life.
3
Do you think we will let you ruin everything by your clowning?
4
Once the clowning begins, Thicke says anything is bound to happen.
5
All their dances are new and full of their characteristic clowning.
1
It was a famous harlequinade; and, as usual, it concluded the entertainment.
2
Prime ministers had succeeded each other like the clowns in a harlequinade.
3
The next, he would repeat his first travesty in all its hideous harlequinade.
4
A harlequinade's the quickest thing we can do, for two reasons.
5
However little one may mourn the dead, something forbids a harlequinade over their graves.
1
The She-Bear gave her grudging assent, deaf to the japery in his tone.
2
Yet parting mist, which impressed no one, most especially not the Knife, had a cost far above such japery.
3
Thereafter, one shinned up the ladder, on post-prandial japery intent, another beat the devil's tattoo, a third writhed cachinnatory.
4
How the Australian barracking of Stuart Broad felt clever and affectionate, the witty japery of an intelligent and respected rival?
5
Despite the japery of Newsround theme tune samples and bagpipes, this good humour is mined more from their ambitious experimentation than anything else.
Usage of buffoonery in English
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-pervadedhis 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?
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