buffoon

Example Sentences

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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

I mistook a buffoon for a monster, and I will be eternally sorry for that.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2024

If the TMZ Selfie Tour could help me look like even slightly less than a ham-handed buffoon in pictures of my own taking it would be worth the price.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 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