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- adverb In a
buffoonish manner.
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Examples
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Isn't it great to live in an age where one can assume that a sincere answer will be taken to be at least potentially sarcastic, thus allowing said one to make sincere assertion without sounding buffoonishly sincere?
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009
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Many of these assertions were, in the view of many here, nakedly dishonest or buffoonishly mistaken.
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All the geniuses who buffoonishly underestimated the Internet (and a few who saw it coming) are chanting a common mantra: computers in everything.
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She quickly recovered, however, and proceeded to tell him how inconsiderate he was, and what a buffoon; no, something worse than a buffoon, because he was brilliant and therefore had no right to behave buffoonishly.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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She quickly recovered, however, and proceeded to tell him how inconsiderate he was, and what a buffoon; no, something worse than a buffoon, because he was brilliant and therefore had no right to behave buffoonishly.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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The kinds of ideologues who are buffoonishly trapped in irrational narcissism threaten both the right and the left.
NYDN Rss Stanley Crouch 2011
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But Lazie also demonstrated how feeble this threat can be: Even with the forces of Facebook HQ and the internet panopticon on their side, Lazie's buffoonishly incompetent hunters let him run free for almost four months.
Gawker 2010
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Walt is obviously woefully and somewhat buffoonishly stuck in a time-warp and he looks like he will never get out.
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If I wasn't quite so busy thoroughly enjoying it, the prospect of one of the two major political parties of the world's only superpower self-destructing so buffoonishly might otherwise give me pause.
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George C. Scott created some of the 20th century's most memorable performances on stage and screen-the cunning prosecutor in Anatomy of a Murder, the manipulative gambler in The Hustler, the buffoonishly warmongering chief of staff in Dr. Strangelove, and, of course, the brilliant and rebellious Patton.
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