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buffoonery

noun as in drollery

noun as in horseplay

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Example Sentences

Her vocal reactionary buffoonery has become part of Israel's political entertainment.

This CNN clip taken on a flooded street on Long Island serves up a buffet of buffoonery.

By contrast, she does not know Hayworth, and owes him nothing (especially with all his political buffoonery).

In far too many cases, black studies very quickly became a hotbed of paranoid bunk and intellectual buffoonery.

The comic authors entertained spectators by fantastic and gross displays, by the exhibition of buffoonery and pantomime.

Though dogs I never did care for keeping, because it goes with drinking, foulness, and buffoonery!

There is a gravity behind his buffoonery, and a secret sympathy with his butts.

Humour she really possessed; and when she chose it, she could be diverting to those who like buffoonery in women.

James I. gave all manner of liberty and encouragement to the exercise of buffoonery, and took great delight in it himself.

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On this page you'll find 540 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to buffoonery, such as: facetiousness, foolishness, jest, pleasantry, raillery, and waggery.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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