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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buffoonish
clownish
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Pratt, who long cultivated a clownish and villainous persona, leveraged his significant social media presence following the fire to refashion himself as an earnest mix of citizen watchdog and populist firebrand.—
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Switcheroo is all snappy disco, clownish house, and musical sight gags.—
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“Buffoonish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buffoonish. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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