buffoonish

How To Use buffoonish In A Sentence

• I can never be sure whether I come across as witty or buffoonish at work.
• Even Daffy Duck's avaricious histrionics are amusing in a buffoonish way.
• Anyway, there are so many more things that Michael Steele has said which are infinitely more offensive and while a public figure like Steele should be more sensitive than your average bear to racially tinged caricaturing, I think we need to take a deep breath and focus more on the disastrous policies he and his America-hating conservative enablers have in store for this country than any buffoonish slips of the tongue. Think Progress » Native-American GOP Congressman Calls Steele’s ‘Honest Injun’ Comments ‘Unacceptable’
• Why the near-buffoonish portrayal of the inquiry's chairman? Times, Sunday Times
• Both have an affable, clubbable, somewhat buffoonish image. Times, Sunday Times
• John Lithgow has never been worse in his cartoonish and buffoonish role as the evil toymaker.
• It's as if these two sides of his character, the passion and the buffoonish clumsiness are interlocked, as if he's a pan that's continually on the verge of boiling over.
• What is significant and rather curious about this otherwise slight prologue is the relative normality of the space being explored compared to the buffoonishly unworldly figure of the intruder.
• In his heyday he was beloved as a comic genius, first from his radio days on The Goon Show, and then in his highly successful years on film, playing a long line of memorable characters headed by the heroically buffoonish Inspector Clouseau.
• The transition from buffoonish to sinister is seamless.