Example sentences for: cantinflas

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

  • The figure of el pelado (the clown) distinctly exemplifies the rascuache outlook, the underdog figure, who is both victim and hero at the same time, a Cantinflas archetype.

  • Similar to Charlie Chaplin, and later developed by the Mexican actor Cantinflas, el pelado was a homeless type who in dialogue could state the unthinkable and mock everything and everybody.

  • Cantinflas, the Mexican actor, was the great relajero of all time.

  • But it is clear that Pedro de Urdemalas is a Hispano precursor to Don Cacahuate, el pelado, Tin Tan, Cantinflas, and an antecedent of Chicano joking behavior.

  • Many Chicanos grew up influenced by Mexican movies, with characters like Pedro Infante, Cantinflas, Antonio Aguilar, and Jorge Negrete, as men who sang to the beautiful girls and defended the poor by fighting for justice and social equality.


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