punchinello
Example Sentences
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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
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
He is neither a gentleman in manner nor in feeling, but a sort of buffoon, a punchinello, a pantaloon.
From Twenty Years After by Dumas père, Alexandre
She went by as if she had not seen us, her curiously mahogany face more of the punchinello type than ever—yet somehow I could not feel but that most of this anger was assumed.
From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Throughout the volumes of the Diary there are few things of which he speaks with franker and more enthusiastic delight than the enjoyment which he derives from punchinello.
From Among Famous Books by Kelman, John
