buffoonery

noun buf·foon·ery \ -ˈfü-nə-rē , -ˈfün-rē \

Definition of buffoonery

plural buffooneries

:foolish or playful behavior or practice

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their madcap buffoonery turned the duo into the nation's hottest comedy act

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Jerry Lewis, who died Aug. 20 at 91, was a comic actor whose rubber-limbed pratfalls, squeaky voice and pipsqueak buffoonery made him one of the most uncontainable screen clowns of all time.

— adam bernstein, Alaska Dispatch News, "Jerry Lewis, comedy king and master of slapstick, dies at 91," 20 Aug. 2017
Jerry Lewis, who died Aug. 20 at 91, was a comic actor whose rubber-limbed pratfalls, squeaky voice and pipsqueak buffoonery made him one of the most uncontainable screen clowns of all time.

— adam bernstein, Washington Post, "Jerry Lewis, comedy king and master of slapstick, dies at 91," 20 Aug. 2017
Donald Trump’s buffoonery is self-defeating, but there is shrewdness beneath it.

— andrew c. mccarthy, National Review, "On Charlottesville, Trump, and Anti-Americanism," 19 Aug. 2017
So Systrom gathered a team to sort through massive piles of bilge, buffoonery, and low-grade extortion on the platform.

— WIRED, "Instagram’s Kevin Systrom Wants to Clean Up the Internet," 14 Aug. 2017
Günther Groissböck was a booming Pogner, and Johannes Martin Kränzle a Beckmesser balanced between sensitivity and buffoonery.

— zachary woolfe, New York Times, "Review: A New ‘Meistersinger’ in Bayreuth Stars Wagner," 1 Aug. 2017
For nothing but your gift for buffoonery, you will be missed, Ol' Spicey.

— chelsea peng, Marie Claire, "Petty Party: The Most Guiltily Satisfying Celebrity Things That Happened This Week," 28 July 2017
But their warnings didn't prepare us for the parade of buffoonery and ineptitude that has characterized his administration from Day One.

— chicagotribune.com, "The global consequences of Trump's incompetence," 18 July 2017
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, "Just Another Nutty June Weekend in the Rockaways," 6 June 2017

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horseplay, clownery, clowning, foolery, high jinks (also hijinks), horsing around, monkey business, monkeying, monkeyshine (s), roughhouse, roughhousing, shenanigan (s), skylarking, slapstick, tomfoolery

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