How to Use buffoonery in a Sentence

buffoonery

noun
  • Either way the brilliance or buffoonery of that idea will shine through.
    — Alex Montoya, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
  • There is, in fact, real stagecraft along with the buffoonery.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Receivers have cratered seasons with me-over-we buffoonery.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2026
  • For nothing but your gift for buffoonery, you will be missed, Ol' Spicey.
    — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 28 July 2017
  • These skills are not the scapegoating, stage buffoonery that excites the base.
    — David M. Shribman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2020
  • With that kind of buffoonery, even Kentucky fans probably don’t want to claim this guy as one of their own.
    — Rolando Rosa, ajc, 26 Nov. 2017
  • And shook our head at the Snyder buffoonery and clownsmanship.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • It is often used for buffoonery and it’s often used for white entertainment.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Aug. 2022
  • One of those f - - - - - - people just meets another level of buffoonery.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Kudrow’s performance, an uncanny blend of buffoonery and heart, is a true marvel.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • But through the lens of director Bong’s twisted sense of humor, that buffoonery comes from somewhere dark.
    — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Despite taunts about being soft on crime, Jackson didn’t lose her cool before the mansplaining and buffoonery.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Then there’s the other result of political buffoonery, when the glove is thrown down and the court battles begin.
    — Patrick Wallis, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
  • What’s so special about Britain’s patron wanker of bighearted buffoonery?
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Their incompetence and buffoonery lead to fist fights, the threat of war, and the possible break-up of the Kingdom.
    — Erik Wecks, WIRED, 28 June 2012
  • So Systrom gathered a team to sort through massive piles of bilge, buffoonery, and low-grade extortion on the platform.
    — WIRED, 14 Aug. 2017
  • But in the Mad Max universe, such buffoonery is often a prelude to unspeakable evil.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 May 2024
  • Fans are fixated on his greatness juxtaposed against the rest of the Bengals’ buffoonery.
    — The Athletic Nfl Staff, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Perhaps the buffoonery would go hand in hand with a knack for deal-making and a mysterious idiot-savant ability to get his way.
    — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The show, with its interest in corporate buffoonery, doesn’t quite manage to hand-wave away the queasy implications.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
  • While Hitler comes across as pure evil, Mussolini is often indicted on the lesser charge of buffoonery.
    — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Beauty, youth, heightened vivacity or even buffoonery overwhelm us, and the figures do indeed seem alive.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Beneath all the buffoonery, the novel moonlights as a chronicle of women fed up with the imperious but weak and self-absorbed men all around them.
    — Boris Fishman, New York Times, 6 June 2017
  • Then Hennigan hired Jacque Vaughn, who had never before been a head coach, and that’s when buffoonery began.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • What saves the book from tabloid buffoonery is Zada’s skeptical eye and conversational style.
    — Eric Weiner, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Every buffoonery of the president and his people was answered by an idiocy from the other side, which in its own style was just as sinister and just as clownish.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Just lately, Taubman has been better known as the Astros’ chief executive in charge of buffoonery.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • National networks are breaking away at times from the buffoonery in Washington to give Hamlin updates.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Dancing around that poor provincial bar room while flirtatiously extolling the virtues of his friend Gaston, Gad hits all the right notes of over-the-top buffoonery.
    — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 27 Feb. 2017
  • His comic material, drawn mainly from perceptive observations of everyday life, might not be broad enough buffoonery for the movies.
    — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026

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