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Recent Examples of buffoon Once infused with the diabolical spirit, the guide is transformed into a buffoon, complete with a harlequin outfit—a mad joker and a dancing fool who does a little jig to the sound of a jazz trio. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2025 Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a buffoon on ketamine tasked with purging the civil service. Claude Malhuret, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2025 Adam Silver, once the model for league commissioners, is suddenly a buffoon? Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2025 The character with which I have been identified, that of the raucous buffoon, is merely a studied portrayal. Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for buffoon
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clown
Noun
  • Also, this was not a good week for billionaires as a socialist Muslim won a long-shot victory in the NYC Democratic primary, partly on the promise to raise taxes among the highest income earners, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos starred in a clown show wedding in Venice.
    Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 28 June 2025
  • Ayanna Pressley, another blow-in-drifter (from Chicago), pole vaulted from the City Council clown show to the U.S. House.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 June 2025

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“Buffoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buffoon. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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