buffoon
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James wasn’t the buffoon his critics disdain, but nor was he a durable leader whose reforms would endure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
He says he feels like he's the "bumbling buffoon" in the "walled garden that is traditional publishing" and that he's committed a kind of "literary heist".
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
He’s a weasel with a sword, the drunken-samurai trope like the tragic buffoon Kikuchiyo, portrayed by the great Toshiro Mifune in the Akira Kurosawa classic “Seven Samurai.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
"John was a comic buffoon, on one side, and tender-hearted and loving, on the other," Pete remarked.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2023
He didn’t seem to be outstandingly bright and many of his colleagues considered him little more than "an irritating buffoon."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
This is old craft, passed down by far more charismatic heels, but you don’t get to select your generation’s buffoons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
Where sitcom fathers have tended to be either impossibly perfect or buffoons, Flaherty imbued Harold Weir with comic dignity, no less dignified for being comic, nor comic for being dignified — an imperfect perfect father.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
I think it's important to let them talk, because when you realize that buffoons really don't really have a point.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2024
They are not, though, always dissimilar onscreen, and in far too many movies, they tend to fall into reliably distinct camps of gaudy buffoons, heroic saviors or unrepentant villains.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
Josh and Luis just laugh like buffoons until Ashley says it’s time for our break.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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