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Buffoonery
Definition:
(n.) The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.
Example Sentences:
(1) When each candidate has been called on their buffoonery, they are simply perceived as candidates who are out of step with the ruling media elite.
(2) All this buffoonery serves one goal: to keep Ukraine in the centre of attention with its western partners at any cost,” Kosachyov said.
(3) There'll be no golden or silver goal buffoonery to worry about - it's two sides of 15 minutes, followed by penalties if necessary.
(4) A “comic” character who isn’t funny will only lead people to switch off; his buffoonery, however vile, attracted a relatively small audience (120,000).
(5) On his LBC phone-in he also put in a vintage display of Johnson buffoonery, struggling to answer a question about the cost of a cash tube fare and bungling IQ questions.
(6) Twice-daily wild west shoot-out shows are full of kid-friendly buffoonery, and a pool, restaurant and accommodation have been added with families in mind.
(7) Mike Dean brings the first half to a close and as it stands, Manchester City are 45 minutes from winning their first league title since 1968 and QPR are going down, and it's all thanks to the buffoonery of Paddy Kenny.
(8) Shakespearean buffoonery Even Judge Colleen McMahon – who put the Newburgh Four behind bars – slammed the FBI.
(9) They are accused of the most incompatible crimes, of egoism and a mania for power, indifference to the fate of their cause, fanaticism, triviality, lack of humour, buffoonery and irreverence.
(10) "I've never seen anything like this," Dotcom said at an event that was equal parts press conference, polemic and buffoonery.
(11) Boris is so supremely confident that he needs neither surname nor adult haircut; he trusts his buffoonery to distract the public from what Conrad Black called "a sly fox disguised as a teddy bear".
(12) "Only the government could have made a terrorist out of Mr Cromitie, a man whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in its scope," she said in court.
(13) It is in Cruz's buffoonery, showmanship and tactical disingenuousness that he poses now as Wallace in drag.
(14) On the related charge of dubious, bad-taste buffoonery, however, he is as guilty as sin.
(15) A win for Cardiff City would fire them into the top 10 and will, due in no small part to their owner's complete buffoonery, be a source of huge amusement for football fans everywhere ... except on the red half of Merseyside.
(16) Ranging from standard clown routines (there’s one where they’re competing to wear the same dress) to satirical sketches (an advertising meeting harvesting ideas from a gibbering idiot), Libby Northedge and Nina Smith’s unflinching brand of buffoonery sometimes draws too deeply on our indulgence.