How to Use buffoonery in a Sentence

buffoonery

noun

• For nothing but your gift for buffoonery, you will be missed, Ol' Spicey.
  — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 28 July 2017
• These skills are not the scapegoating, stage buffoonery that excites the base.
  — David M. Shribman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2020
• Their incompetence and buffoonery lead to fist fights, the threat of war, and the possible break-up of the Kingdom.
  — Erik Wecks, WIRED, 28 June 2012
• With that kind of buffoonery, even Kentucky fans probably don’t want to claim this guy as one of their own.
  — Rolando Rosa, ajc, 26 Nov. 2017
• And shook our head at the Snyder buffoonery and clownsmanship.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
• So Systrom gathered a team to sort through massive piles of bilge, buffoonery, and low-grade extortion on the platform.
  — WIRED, 14 Aug. 2017
• Despite taunts about being soft on crime, Jackson didn’t lose her cool before the mansplaining and buffoonery.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Mar. 2022
• After all, we’re accustomed to the idea that political discourse in this state comes with a high rate of buffoonery.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• Then Hennigan hired Jacque Vaughn, who had never before been a head coach, and that’s when buffoonery began.
  — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Dancing around that poor provincial bar room while flirtatiously extolling the virtues of his friend Gaston, Gad hits all the right notes of over-the-top buffoonery.
  — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 27 Feb. 2017
• Along with the premiere news, a trailer for the series dropped, which features all the key elements fans have come to expect from the classic adult cartoon: crass jokes, buffoonery and, of course, fire.
  — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2022
• While Hitler comes across as pure evil, Mussolini is often indicted on the lesser charge of buffoonery.
  — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2020
• Kudrow’s performance, an uncanny blend of buffoonery and heart, is a true marvel.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• One of those f - - - - - - people just meets another level of buffoonery.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
• Beneath all the buffoonery, the novel moonlights as a chronicle of women fed up with the imperious but weak and self-absorbed men all around them.
  — Boris Fishman, New York Times, 6 June 2017
• It is often used for buffoonery and it’s often used for white entertainment.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Aug. 2022
• Perhaps the buffoonery would go hand in hand with a knack for deal-making and a mysterious idiot-savant ability to get his way.
  — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 27 Apr. 2017
• More and more viewers must must be tuning in to The Masked Singer, television’s weekly costume ball of buffoonery, because the stage has a fancy new video projection floor.
  — Robbie Daw, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2019
• Just lately, Taubman has been better known as the Astros’ chief executive in charge of buffoonery.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• That Trump could win with them amid nonstop buffoonery throughout his campaign is arguably a testament to their power.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 12 Apr. 2017
• Jerry Lewis, who died Aug. 20 at 91, was a comic actor whose rubber-limbed pratfalls, squeaky voice and pipsqueak buffoonery made him one of the most uncontainable screen clowns of all time.
  — Adam Bernstein, Alaska Dispatch News, 20 Aug. 2017
• Every buffoonery of the president and his people was answered by an idiocy from the other side, which in its own style was just as sinister and just as clownish.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2021
• Hanks’ Falstaff, padded to resemble a knighted pumpkin (the costumes are by Holly Poe Durbin), doesn’t overdo the buffoonery.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 June 2018
• That the Astros ever held an advantage against him was the benefit from his fielder’s buffoonery, not Paxton’s poor pitching.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 18 Oct. 2019
• Everyone can see straight through his buffoonery ... except for his blind faith followers.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 6 Oct. 2019
• Either way, or neither, sheer visual impact seems to be Saul’s aim, in service to an ever-seething personal rage that finds release and takes refuge in double-down buffoonery.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
• Donald Trump’s buffoonery is self-defeating, but there is shrewdness beneath it.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 19 Aug. 2017
• National networks are breaking away at times from the buffoonery in Washington to give Hamlin updates.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2023
• What saves the book from tabloid buffoonery is Zada’s skeptical eye and conversational style.
  — Eric Weiner, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
• Once heralded as a fearless lawman, game-changing New York City mayor and Sept. 11 hero, he is now defined by a subservience to the 45th president that sometimes veered into buffoonery.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024