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
Far-sighted folks became aware that the pretty tricks of the puppets were due to an English punchinello.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
The people who had crowded in to look at him began to laugh when they saw how small he was, how pale and ugly like a punchinello.
From Under the Shadow of Etna Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga by Verga, Giovanni
