Example sentences for: buffoonish

How can you use “buffoonish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • baffoonish (buffoonish) Portland (Maine) NBC News anchor Cindy Williams 28 June 1996

  • Perhaps even more demoralizing has been a controversial TV melodrama called Mossad , which, according to the agency, depicts agents as buffoonish playboys.

  • In real hearings, adversaries brandish impressive-sounding studies and tell sob stories, rather than making buffoonish personal attacks.

  • But perhaps his sexual boasting, while delightfully buffoonish, is a minor crime.

  • After his death in a skiing accident, the pop-singer-turned-congressman is elevated from a "hen-pecked, dim bulb" (Jill Lawrence, USA Today ) to "a symbol of the American capacity for reinvention" ( Newsweek ). Many critics conclude that Bono was not as buffoonish as his public image, which they claim he self-consciously cultivated to advance his career.


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