buffoon

• Those who know only the Mark Twain of the latter years, with his deep, underlying seriousness, his grim irony, and his passion for justice and truth, find difficulty in realizing that, in his earlier days, the joker and the buffoon were almost solely in evidence. —  Mark Twain
• Who wants to make a bet that this buffoon is a full time crazy from Just Jared. —  The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories
• In fact, it wouldn't work if it didn't sit over a vast pool of arrogance and self-satisfaction; pretending to be a buffoon is a luxury for those who don't have to worry about being believed. —  A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros
• The servant-buffoon was the time form of the buffoon. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• I was much alarmed as well as surprised at this course of conduct; for although my friend was an inveterate joker, he was the very reverse of what is termed a buffoon, and never indulged in personally grotesque actions with a view to make people laugh--such as making faces, a practice which, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, causes the face-makers to look idiotical rather than funny, and induces beholders to pity them, and to feel very uncomfortable sensations Peterkin's yells, instead of ceasing, continued and increased Why, what's wrong?" —  The Gorilla Hunters

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the Same Context

Word Family