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How to use buffoonery in a sentence

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He resists with buffoonery on the set, peevish demands for attention, and displays of contempt for her direction.
This ridiculous sounding direct translation of a toiletry-product seemed to perfectly sum up the buffoonery and pomposity of the French.
Like the great music-hall turn, they combine vulgarity and wit, musicality and buffoonery.
You have everything from Homer's buffoonery to the more complicated satire.
The movement went to extremes in its use of buffoonery and provocative behaviour to shock and disrupt public complacency.
Like all standup comedians who transition into film careers, he had to buy his way into the business through buffoonery.
This gorgeous, impressive set, once lit, was host to dancing that bordered on buffoonery, but silly music deserves silly dancing.
I keep going at it with guns blazing, but I do wonder if my mock-buffoonery is just a cover to deflect accusations of real buffoonery.
Aside from being great fun, what is the lesson from Boffa's boffo biological buffoonery?
I suspect that there are lawyers who have been disbarred because of less offensive courtroom buffoonery.
Instead, we find here a spring of tender delight, the sensuous real Schubert putting at least a momentary end to all the buffoonery.
By reason of the reaction of the three hosts, supplemented by the callers, nothing remained but buffoonery.
But his buffoonery was a side issue to his brutality and murderous tastes.
Previous to this affair my father, from all I can learn, had been a good-humored and light-hearted man, the ringleader in all fun at cornhuskings and Christmas buffoonery.
Added to all of this technical wizardry is a musical score by David Rhymer, performed by the entire cast with just the right mix of sentiment and buffoonery.
This CNN clip taken on a flooded street on Long Island serves up a buffet of buffoonery.
The degree to which buffoonery links them only occurred to me while watching old clips of Cyril Smith hamming it up.
When the jokes and buffoonery are dead and forgotten, the towers will remain.
Now there's an official app for his engaging blend of creativity and digital buffoonery – crucially, without swearing, unlike many of his peers.
In far too many cases, black studies very quickly became a hotbed of paranoid bunk and intellectual buffoonery.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Polyphemus in Acis and Galatea has a fine amplitude of rough buffoonery.
It was cruel that his extreme unhappiness should have in it something of buffoonery.
Brederode was not to be the hero of that party which he disgraced by his buffoonery.
This is not a criticism of the phallus on grounds of obscenity, but on grounds of buffoonery.
For my point never was that any Australian tribe had a pure theistic conception unsoiled and unobliterated by myth and buffoonery.
O'Mally, for all his buffoonery, was a keen one to read a face.
Maybe I am wrong and there is a purpose behind this buffoonery.
He in turn gives way to the hilarious buffoonery of the two slaves.
Others of them, however, exhibited in the midst of much rough-and-tumble fighting and buffoonery, a slight thread of dramatic action.
As late as 1783 the buffoonery of this kind of exhibition continued.
Tabarin's wits were not exhausted by this kind of buffoonery.
There's slapstick buffoonery, unconvincing peril and mild grumbling as the decrepit duo are tempted by soft beds, pretty ladies and motorised transport.
But when Fury's pre-fight hype turned from comicbook buffoonery to a biblical rant during a set-piece interview last week, you had to fear for the old chap.
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