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Recent Examples of buffoonish
Ingoglia has offered buffoonish partisanship, not serious auditing.
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Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026
Like in One Battle After Another, DiCaprio played buffoonish and vaguely incompetent, but Scorsese doesn’t weaponize his ignorance for laughs.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026
Like in One Battle After Another, DiCaprio played buffoonish and vaguely incompetent, but Scorsese doesn’t weaponize his ignorance for laughs.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buffoonish
clownish
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He’s best known at this point either for playing the clownish Jack on Will & Grace or for being the relatively serious one of the three celebrity chatters on his podcast, Smartless.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2026
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Both McAdams and O’Brien play with their movie star personae but move beyond those expectations to deliver highly expressive, almost clownish performances — in the best way.—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Buffoonish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buffoonish. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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