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Recent Examples of buffoonish
This genre parody of Steven Segal action films and post-9/11 media like 24 is a show-within-a-show spun off Adult Swim web series On Cinema at the Cinema, wherein Tim Heidecker plays an evil, buffoonish, idiotic, shallow, narcissistic, Trumpian version of himself.
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Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
Ingoglia has offered buffoonish partisanship, not serious auditing.
—Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026
Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
Ingoglia has offered buffoonish partisanship, not serious auditing.
—Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buffoonish
clownish
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The Black characters that appeared on-screen closely resembled the clownish stereotypes popularized by the minstrels.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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The clownish dance is a Fortnite video game gesture, and involves making an L shape with fingers, pressing it to one’s forehead, then high kicking from side to side.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Buffoonish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buffoonish. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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