buffoon

Example Sentences

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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

The “buffoon” story comforts those who can’t face the professional competence behind the chaos.

From Salon

Even if he contradicts himself or is caught in a lie or is shown to be the buffoon that he is, she will always hum his political tune.

From Salon

Hoover would see Patel, correctly enough, as a buffoon and a patsy who was bending the FBI’s awesome machinery to the service of a mercurial president’s incoherent personal agenda.

From Salon

“Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a ketamine-fueled buffoon in charge of purging the civil service.”

From Salon