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Recent Examples of buffoonish
Like in One Battle After Another, DiCaprio played buffoonish and vaguely incompetent, but Scorsese doesn’t weaponize his ignorance for laughs.
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buffoonish
clownish
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The combo together ensures that the lip doesn't look clownish.—
Sarah Hoffmann,
Allure,
3 Oct. 2025
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Off-camera, Rosenthal’s characteristic ebullience is more cerebral than clownish.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Buffoonish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buffoonish. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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