punchinello
Example Sentences
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Like a maddened punchinello, he flailed at the gathering crowds of refugees, screaming at them to back away from the bank.
From Time Magazine Archive
No sympathy, no best wishes rose to greet brown, broad-shouldered Champion Max Baer as that prime poseur, playboy and punchinello of the U. S. prize ring parted the ropes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is neither a gentleman in manner nor in feeling, but a sort of buffoon, a punchinello, a pantaloon.
From Twenty Years After by Dumas père, Alexandre
She sat very rigid, far forward on the bench, compressed into a terrible corset which forced her breast and back into the humps of a punchinello; her legs hanging just short of the floor.
From The Idol of Paris by Bernhardt, Sarah
It was as though a parrot or a punchinello spoke, and sentences which were unexpected could not be understood.
From Heroes of the Telegraph by Munro, John
