buffoonish

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Whenever the left needs someone to misrepresent the Right and make it look buffoonish, they call on Buchanan and he cheerfully obliges them.

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  • He's joined by his reluctant roommate Leo and of course soon enough by Michaela and the buffoonish (now ex) government agent from the first film, Simmons (John Turturro). —  Screen Rant
  • My least favorite "Office" episodes or moments generally revolve around Michael behaving in a particularly buffoonish, cartoonish way.
  • During her weeklong crawl from the playpen to worldwide notoriety, Pearl has been the subject of several profiles in One of these folks is known for TV appearances as a one-dimensional, buffoonish, beanpole-figured caricature who elicits Pavlovian applause by repeating stale and empty catchphrases. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • I don't know how anyone can sit through more than five minutes of that kind of buffoonish negativity. —  Riverfront Times | Complete Issue
  • The pilot portrays George as more devious than buffoonish, which works on one level, but not in making him a truly endearing main character. —  StuffWeLike.com
 

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