How to Use buffoon in a Sentence

buffoon

noun
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  • Stop acting like a buffoon.
  • Taylour is the straight man, and Riley is the clown or the buffoon.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 30 June 2021
  • And, yet, these dreamers and buffoons stayed at their post.
    — Richard Brady, National Review, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Who would kow-tow to this buffoon and jump through hoops for his blessing?
    — J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Donald Trump— was a buffoon not fit to come within 20 miles of the White House.
    — Bess Levin, The Hive, 20 Jan. 2017
  • But a lot of dads are portrayed as being buffoons in the media.
    — Sonja Haller, ajc, 20 June 2018
  • Big Fat Quiz works best when someone is in the high-status-buffoon role.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Granted, all the Nazis were portrayed as buffoons, but still.
    — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Kliff Kingsbury is mediocre at best, and a buffoon at worst.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Tarantino makes Atkins and the other Mansons out to be buffoons.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2019
  • And, if their leader is such a buffoon, why do three hundred and thirty-three million of the rest of us live in their world?
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Your host is spending his or her time and money to take you out, so don’t act like some buffoon at a frat party.
    — Vikki Fraser, Town & Country, 21 July 2017
  • Kurtz being a buffoon and giving Willard homework are out.
    — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2019
  • In this reimagining, Dan is still a narcissist and a buffoon.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • What a racist buffoon, playing to other racist buffoons.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • To return to the subject of Cuomo, that boorish, bumbling buffoon.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Joe Biden won in 2020 not simply by making the case that Trump was a dangerous buffoon that everyone was sick of.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Nine months ago, critics left and right were writing off Trump as an irrelevant buffoon without a clue of what to do in the White House.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Opinion:Don't blame the buffoon who harassed Brittney Griner.
    — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 11 June 2023
  • One kind of investor enjoys the fast results of the Next Big Thing, making the kind of concentrated bet that can make one look like a genius or a buffoon.
    — Chris Taylor, wsj.com, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Jeff is a buffoon, always setting off his shrill, tacky wife Susie (Susie Essman).
    — TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Though Nick just wants to make amends, his cousin, the odious buffoon Edison Cheng, is dead set on preventing a reunion that might weaken his shot at the estate.
    — Steph Cha, USA TODAY, 23 May 2017
  • Many New Yorkers felt more comfortable seeing Mr. Sharpton as a buffoon or a race-baiter.
    — Greg Howard, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2018
  • And while the choices may be grim, many still believe an incompetent buffoon is the better option.
    — Anna Beahm, AL.com, 28 Dec. 2017
  • Is the sitcom a scenario Allison is envisioning to help her grin and bear her buffoon of a husband?
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 20 June 2021
  • His physical presence will be under siege at all times, but like the British buffoon, Ethan Winters persists.
    — Washington Post, 14 May 2021
  • Cyrano is often played as a man of unfettered brilliance who has learned to be a buffoon as a matter of self-preservation.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The patriarch who should be a loving, wise guide is actually a buffoon.
    — Vulture, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Some lawmakers came off sounding like buffoons, and the glib verdict rendered Zuckerberg the winner.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Politics is dirty and angry, and many on the other side will characterize Barkley as a buffoon, grandstander, clown.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017

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