punchinello

Example Sentences

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No sympathy, no best wishes rose to greet brown, broad-shouldered Champion Max Baer as that prime poseur, playboy and punchinello of the U. S. prize ring parted the ropes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like a maddened punchinello, he flailed at the gathering crowds of refugees, screaming at them to back away from the bank.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was as though a parrot or a punchinello spoke, and sentences which were unexpected could not be understood.

From Heroes of the Telegraph by Munro, John

She went to look for playthings—a punchinello, a collection of images, and spread them out on the bed in order to amuse him.

From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Flaubert, Gustave

So contemptible had the Pope become, even in the eyes of devout Catholics, that de Maistre called the inflexible but supine Pontiff a punchinello of no importance.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan