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n. - Foolish behavior that is often grotesquely humorous.

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  • And the fact that women anywhere are willing to dignify such baboonery with a response infuriates me.
  • This 'bloody baboonery', as the communists called the highly publicized police performance, was preceded by inspired press reports of evidence - more sensational than...
  • Whilst the baboonery of fascism skipped and capered in Germany, Italy.
  • That Bolshevism was foul baboonery was obvious to any but the most ardent and simple socialist utopian.
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