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Recent Examples of buffoonish
Online editor and former reality star Esmerelda Grand (Sabrina Impacciatore) straddles the line between nutty coworker and buffoonish cartoon.
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Sara Netzley,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 July 2026
The only leaders more buffoonish and lethal than the fairground hucksters elected in our failing democracies are the omnipotent clowns of tyranny.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
In his hands, Tom can be buffoonish, tragic, doomed and heroic at once.
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David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
11 June 2026
This genre parody of Steven Segal action films and post-9/11 media like 24 is a show-within-a-show spun off Adult Swim web series On Cinema at the Cinema, wherein Tim Heidecker plays an evil, buffoonish, idiotic, shallow, narcissistic, Trumpian version of himself.
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Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
Ingoglia has offered buffoonish partisanship, not serious auditing.
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Scott Maxwell,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Jan. 2026
Sara Netzley,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 July 2026
The only leaders more buffoonish and lethal than the fairground hucksters elected in our failing democracies are the omnipotent clowns of tyranny.
—
Simon Sebag Montefiore,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
In his hands, Tom can be buffoonish, tragic, doomed and heroic at once.
—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
11 June 2026
This genre parody of Steven Segal action films and post-9/11 media like 24 is a show-within-a-show spun off Adult Swim web series On Cinema at the Cinema, wherein Tim Heidecker plays an evil, buffoonish, idiotic, shallow, narcissistic, Trumpian version of himself.
—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
Ingoglia has offered buffoonish partisanship, not serious auditing.
—
Scott Maxwell,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buffoonish
clownish
Adjective
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Martin showed that even a clownish gentleman with a pure heart could woo someone like Tisha Campbell’s Gina.
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The Black characters that appeared on-screen closely resembled the clownish stereotypes popularized by the minstrels.
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“Buffoonish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buffoonish. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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