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Recent Examples of buffoonery There are no gilded gates here, but there is one heck of a party, complete with serenading busts, ballroom dancers, excitable opera singers, drunken buffoonery and portraits locked in an endless duel. Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025 What’s so special about Britain’s patron wanker of bighearted buffoonery? Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025 Fans are fixated on his greatness juxtaposed against the rest of the Bengals’ buffoonery. The Athletic Nfl Staff, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025 Either way the brilliance or buffoonery of that idea will shine through. Alex Montoya, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for buffoonery
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buffoonery
Noun
  • Would that all life could be filled with such tomfoolery.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
  • Another aspect to note is that the AI didn’t ridicule me or otherwise play any tomfoolery about my need for assistance.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • Tirhakah Love is a senior writer at New York Magazine and the host of the new evening newsletter Dinner Party, a daily email that touches on all things entertainment — that means film, television, music, tech, and gaming — plus politics and corporate clownery.
    Vulture, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The Winx Club live action is a big clownery!
    Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 25 Jan. 2021
Noun
  • The action anime feature for everyone who couldn’t get enough of the horseplay in The Two Towers has finally cantered onto Max.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Mike Vrabel’s back And the horseplay is going to stop, apparently.
    Josh Kendall, The Athletic, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Eric Andre, Tyler the Creator and Machine Gun Kelly all drop by to participate in the Jack-foolery.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The whole of humanity doesn’t fit tidily into three acts, even assuming as much frame-breaking foolery as Wilder allows.
    New York Times, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
Noun
  • Night Court captured audiences through the '80s with slapstick comedy and slow-burn romances — many of which were left unresolved when the show concluded in 1992.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 6 May 2025
  • With hyperpop-ish glee, Barbie veered between musical, slapstick comedy, and melodrama.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025

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“Buffoonery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buffoonery. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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