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Meanings of buffoonish in English

Like a clown.

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Examples for "clownish"
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Trump's actions, in other words, should be considered before his sometimes-clownish words.
The Guardian
2
The men were mere clowns, but the exhibition was anything but clownish.
Despair's Last Journey
3
Someone who struck him as strange, out of place, funny, even clownish?
IT
4
I learnt that my cousin had grown up ignorant, self-willed, and clownish.
Tales of a Traveller
5
All other men are of use; he alone is clownish like a peasant.
The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion
1
On the practice courts another really zany Team Murray forfeit going on.
The Guardian
2
Feet prints:The revival of Celia Birtwell and her zany prints continues apace.
The Irish Times
3
So there he caught me lying like a zany on the ground.
Moonfleet
4
She had been so wild and zany when he first met her.
Lightning
5
The tone is as zany and as thoughtful as everything he writes.
The Irish Times
1
Makeup had been applied directly to the mask: his lips were rendered huge, clownlike.
The new yorker
2
They all looked anxiously at Jason's clownlike figure.
The Pinhoe Egg
3
She knew that her clownlike antics would have seemed funny had the situation not been so painful.
A change in altitude
4
I mimicked her and found that the motion smoothed out the gloss, making me look less clownlike.
Halo
5
Grobbelaar's ability as a player was often overshadowed by a persona that was considered by some to be clownlike and unprofessional.
The South African
Usage of buffoonish in English
1
One particular incident encapsulates Andrew's buffoonish approach to royal life.
News.com.au
2
The shots of the buffoonish grinning man alongside the nonagenarian sovereign made headlines globally.
News.com.au
3
Mr. Scogan, solemnly buffoonish, shuffled round the room with Mary.
Crome Yellow
4
If you address them sincerely you can seem buffoonish.
The Irish Times
5
He was dazzling as a satirist and improv comedian while mimicking a buffoonish right-wing broadcaster.
The Irish Times
6
Colbert, in his buffoonish way, playing an idiot, continued:
Obama zombies: how the liberal machine brainwashed my generation
7
There's the occasional hint of Sandler's more buffoonish side but as with his performance in P.T.
News.com.au
8
Worse, characters like the buffoonish son-in-law are one-dimensional.
Reuters
9
You know, after John Amos left the show due to the increasingly buffoonish antics of the JJ character?
Ebony
10
It's clearly what New Zealand First think of other New Zealanders, but it's a bit buffoonish, if you ask me.
Radio NZ
11
West's lovably hearty, buffoonish performance is a big factor here: he seems to be channelling Oliver Reed at his most ebullient.
BBC
12
Captain Irons's sole talent rested in his astonishing ability to survive in the face of his gaffes, usually buffoonish or egregious.
Raging Heat
13
Every time you say that word in reference to the United States, you sound like a buffoonish bureaucrat from the Soviet Union.
Wired
14
It is better than the reckless game-playing of a buffoonish ruling class that has led to the self-harming gesture politics of Brexit.
The Guardian
15
But the steely determination with which Graham vowed revenge on Tim Shaw was certainly a new level of gravitas for his buffoonish character.
The Guardian
16
If anything, it makes them love him more -even if it makes him seem like a buffoonish character from HBO's Silicon Valley.
The Verge
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