How to Use buffoon in a Sentence

buffoon

noun

• Stop acting like a buffoon.
• Who would kow-tow to this buffoon and jump through hoops for his blessing?
  — J.d. Crowe | [email protected], al, 4 Apr. 2022
• There is no buffoon who can’t seem to complete the simplest of tasks.
  — Shannon Carpenter, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
• So my place is to play this role of be the little buffoon every now and then.
  — Outside Online, 21 Nov. 2024
• But a lot of dads are portrayed as being buffoons in the media.
  — Sonja Haller, ajc, 20 June 2018
• Taylour is the straight man, and Riley is the clown or the buffoon.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 30 June 2021
• Granted, all the Nazis were portrayed as buffoons, but still.
  — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• Tedros is part mastermind, part buffoon, part cult leader, and all sleaze.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2025
• Your host is spending his or her time and money to take you out, so don’t act like some buffoon at a frat party.
  — Vikki Fraser, Town & Country, 21 July 2017
• Big Fat Quiz works best when someone is in the high-status-buffoon role.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2022
• So, our bandage-on-ear buffoon continues to prove how prophetic the quote proves to be.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 23 July 2024
• The two buffoons shave her head, chain her in the basement of a messy remote home and then accuse her of being an alien.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
• And, if their leader is such a buffoon, why do three hundred and thirty-three million of the rest of us live in their world?
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2021
• Tarantino makes Atkins and the other Mansons out to be buffoons.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2019
• In this reimagining, Dan is still a narcissist and a buffoon.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
• Perhaps the system isn’t really corrupt, it’s just run by buffoons.
  — G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2025
• The patriarch who should be a loving, wise guide is actually a buffoon.
  — Vulture, 6 Dec. 2023
• So the Dolphins haven’t totally escaped their buffoon-like past with Ross at the helm.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2026
• And while the choices may be grim, many still believe an incompetent buffoon is the better option.
  — Anna Beahm, AL.com, 28 Dec. 2017
• Johnson delights in playing the role of lovable buffoon in the locker room, but his goofiness has purpose.
  — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
• Constanze, adoring the brilliance behind the buffoon, ensured a stable, kind home life.
  — Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
• To return to the subject of Cuomo, that boorish, bumbling buffoon.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 23 Mar. 2021
• Cyrano is often played as a man of unfettered brilliance who has learned to be a buffoon as a matter of self-preservation.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• To have a director character to represent or explain their love of movies, and also show them as a flawed buffoon — but not to do just one.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 5 July 2024
• He is looked upon as a bloviating buffoon, not to be believed or taken seriously.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2026
• Jeff is a buffoon, always setting off his shrill, tacky wife Susie (Susie Essman).
  — TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
• Jerry is a buffoon whom Reggie embarrassed years ago on the field, and Reggie’s used to his hatred.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
• Is the sitcom a scenario Allison is envisioning to help her grin and bear her buffoon of a husband?
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 20 June 2021
• Some lawmakers came off sounding like buffoons, and the glib verdict rendered Zuckerberg the winner.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2018
• Politics is dirty and angry, and many on the other side will characterize Barkley as a buffoon, grandstander, clown.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017