(n.) A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew.
(a.) Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon.
(v. i.) To act the part of a buffoon.
(v. t.) To treat with buffoonery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The global face of Britain is now a buffoon (as many in Brussels describe him), whose word is as reliable as a used-car salesman’s.
(2) Talking last month on his late-night HBO show Last Week Tonight , Oliver ridiculed Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha's "dystopian nightmare" of a government, called Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn a "buffoon" and an "idiot", and ridiculed a clip of a contentious home video of the prince and his semi-naked wife at a poolside birthday party for their pet poodle Foo Foo.
(3) The National theatre's Broadway version of One Man, Two Guvnors, starring James Corden as a gluttonous buffoon, has received seven nominations at this year's Tony Awards – but was trumped by the largely British creative team behind Once , which picked up 11 to lead the pack.
(4) Described yesterday as a bully and buffoon, his predictions of doom under a multiracial democracy proved hollow and his support dwindled to a tiny rump.
(5) Well at least they wouldn't burn up on re-entry you fat-fingered buffoon.
(6) There’s also the fact that some of Reclaim Australia’s most prominent participants are racist buffoons of long standing .
(7) Even as he handed out wads of petrodollars to impoverished developing countries, their leaders mocked him behind his back for being a buffoon and a clown.
(8) The major parties offer a deranged rightwing sociopath provoking global war or a reality-TV buffoon with no actual policy, both of them hopelessly corrupt and staggeringly incompetent.
(9) Unlike Hank, Tambor need not worry that he's a talentless buffoon, but that doesn't mean he doesn't fret about it.
(10) The US media have seen him as an outrageous buffoon, a menace, an incipient tyrant, a creation of the fascist Twittersphere.
(11) Someone who seems to combine both careers, however, is Boris Johnson, who manages simultaneously to be both London mayor and zipwire-swinging buffoon.
(12) In my sport they literally tell you you have to act ignorant, act like a buffoon if you want to make it.
(13) Yesterday, the "buffoon" of South African politics was named as one of Africa's 10 most powerful young men by international business magazine Forbes.
(14) McMahon passed that on to his England team-mates, who figured they'd be lining out the next day against a band of bedraggled buffoons.
(15) Acting the buffoon is a winning political strategy, as Farage has discovered.
(16) "All I had ever seen was Boris being a buffoon on Have I Got News For You?.
(17) During the years of "kanaalen," she becomes the community buffoon who always has to play the clown.
(18) But in an intelligent way,” he added, “not getting embroiled in individual debates with buffoons who only want to provoke.
(19) Furthermore, convincing your fellow audience members that you are honestly trying to contribute will recast you not as a selfish egotist but a lovable buffoon.
(20) His Vietnam war heroism was recast as cowardice by George W Bush’s allies in 2004, and Bush successfully portrayed Kerry as a foppish buffoon.
Jackass
Definition:
(n.) The male ass; a donkey.
(n.) A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead.
Example Sentences:
(1) Detroiters review – Jackass meets Mad Men as stupidity sells in the motor city Read more But it is not lost.
(2) In fact, even as he is readying Her for lock-down, he's simultaneously dipping in and out of the production for the Jackass spin-off, Bad Grandpa , starring Knoxville as a fake 86-year-old granddad with a huge capacity for giving offence.
(3) Photograph: Courtesy of Warner Bros Picture Best makeup and hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa The Lone Ranger Winner: Dallas Buyers Club Best animated feature: The Croods Despicable Me 2 Ernest and Celestine Frozen The Wind Rises Winner: Frozen Best animated short: Feral Get a Horse!
(4) The latter is an intriguing vision , a trojan horse of massive deregulation of some of everything – a clown balloon horse, with rainbow polka dots and a jackass smile.
(5) Such is Swift’s global standing that the President himself called West “a jackass” and, five years on, the moment still hasn’t quite died in the collective imagination.
(6) Everyone is guilty of overdoing it on Trumpy , because Donald Trump is a jackass of galactic proportions.
(7) Debauchery Stratton Oakmont's profits fund a bacchanal: cars, drugs, women who are exactly as disposable as the cars and drugs, and antics that veer from Jackass territory into hazing rituals.
(8) At the college of St Philip and St James, which later became Presentation college, Warner claimed a mathematics teacher once called him “jackass” as he fumbled in class.
(9) Its main competitor is Bad Grandpa, but the academy are big on Jean-Marc Vallée’s Aids drama, nominating it six times, and I don’t think a Jackass production can steal its thunder.
(10) "[He's] completed his own transformation from a sharp-elbowed, apocalyptic satirist focused on sending up the socio-economic-political plight of this country into a kind of 19th-century realist concerned with the public and private lives of his characters," wrote the influential reviewer about the novel, in a huge change of heart from her dissection of Franzen's memoir The Discomfort Zone in 2006 , which she called "an odious self-portrait of the artist as a young jackass: petulant, pompous, obsessive, selfish and overwhelmingly self-absorbed".
(11) A video on YouTube, Elders React to Dubstep , plays on this idea: various old folk, exposed to a barrage of bass-screech, offer comments such as "incomprehensible", "like Jackass in a bottle", and, revealingly, "it make me feel like the future is now".
(12) But the Jackass movies have something in common with the earliest, oldest kinds of cinema, in which a camera was simply set up, and insane things were enacted before it.
(13) David Carr, the New York Times's influential media critic, memorably assailed its style as "putting on a safari hat and looking at some poop" , while Dan Rather, one of US broadcasting's elder statesmen, recently dismissed Vice as "more Jackass than journalism".
(14) These are African penguins, they used to be called Jackass penguins.
(15) I’ll leave you to choose them.” Having demurred, he then pointedly alluded to a speech at a recent fundraiser in which he had called Cruz a “jackass”.
(16) This study investigates the functional anatomy of the flipper of the jackass penguin (Speniscus demersus).
(17) Which is fine: jackasses have their place in world like anyone else.
(18) If you watch Jackass again you'll kinda see how much we plagiarised from Tom and Jerry – it's pathetic!"
(19) The activity of 5'-nucleotidase (EC 1.3.5), cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (EC 2.1.4.17), non-specific phosphodiesterase (EC 3.1.4.1) and ribonuclease (EC 1.7.7.16)has been investigated in the seminal plasma of whole semen and in the secretions of the seminal vesicle, prostate and epididymis of the bull, boar, ram, stallion, jackass, rabbit and man.
(20) Jackass – the newsie Facebook Twitter Pinterest Former Telegraph proprietor Conrad Black comes under pressure from Boulton while attempting to downplay his fraud conviction – and brands the political editor a "jackass".