buffoonery

Scenes like that don’t strike fear in anyone; they just expose the buffoonery behind the bravura.

Born and raised in an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., his younger years were plagued with what he called “complete buffoonery” — street fights, misplaced aggression and behavior that resulted in multiple arrests.

There are early signs of buffoonery involving a maternal wig.

His mixture of insult, ressentiment, and buffoonery is a work of genius.

There are no gilded gates here, but there is one heck of a party, complete with serenading busts, ballroom dancers, excitable opera singers, drunken buffoonery and portraits locked in an endless duel.