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

They see that he’s a buffoon, but they know that the United States is still the world’s most consequential great power.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 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

Who was this buffoon? was the reaction of the national media.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2024

Except for the mishap with Tin Man—or whatever the name was going to be—I saw no sign of the buffoon Abigail had described.

From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman