buffoonery

• Bellamy played the detective four times, William Gargan had three pictures, Eddie Quillan tackled (almost a literal description when all his buffoonery is taken into account) the role once. —  EQMM, July 2005
• It has such passages as the following:—'Low and mean as your buffoonery is, it is yet to the level of the people:' p. xi. 'I have now done with your buffoonery, which, like chewed bullets, is against the law of arms; and come next to your scurrilities, those stink-pots of your offensive war.' —  Life Of Johnson, Volume 5
• We couldn't get the thing to turn on -- prototype buffoonery, zapped battery, or a classic case of trade show jitters, we figure -- but CTIA. —  Engadget
• The modern monarchies themselves are predominantly Liberal Venetians of the Sarpi pedigree, sometimes dressed up with feudal trappings, but despite such costumed buffoonery, are actually very, very "bourgeois" monarchies, and are representatives of the collective interest embodied in the swarm of private financiers, as it were the "Queen" of the hornets 'nest. —  LaRouche's Latest
• The motives for calling out such buffoonery are clear, and laudable. —  MetaFilter

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