A buffoonish walk. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He was kind of buffoonish and silly and burlesque. From Wordnik.com. [Them: Adventures with Extremists] Reference
For you of all people to take this kind of buffoonish statement seriously is really astonishing. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I don't know how anyone can sit through more than five minutes of that kind of buffoonish negativity. From Wordnik.com. [Riverfront Times | Complete Issue] Reference
The GOP has become a buffoonish mockery of itself. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Schweitzer: GOP's Descent to Madness] Reference
Performance like that doesn't sound buffoonish to me. From Wordnik.com. [Richardson: I Stand By My Lord-Loves-Iowa Remark] Reference
The pro - ID school board in that case was buffoonish. From Wordnik.com. [My Aha! Moment] Reference
To avoid making Michael too buffoonish or nasty, for instance?. From Wordnik.com. [Q&A: The Office’s Paul Feig: Matt Pressman] Reference
Two weeks later, this fool releases his buffoonish video on YouTube. From Wordnik.com. [Another GOP Rep. Pushing Tall Tale That China Is Drilling For Oil Off American Shores] Reference
This is why the buffoonish tea-bagger types hoard their resentments. From Wordnik.com. [The Audacity of Hopelessness] Reference
KURTZ: But I would -- you know, I understand you are saying buffoonish. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2007] Reference
Plus it reminds people of buffoonish caricatures or other black politicians. From Wordnik.com. [The Blago/Burris Press Conference: A Sight To Behold] Reference
The buffoonish tourist had disappeared, replaced by a far more thoughtful inquisitor. From Wordnik.com. [Undercover Vows]
As played by Yul Brynner in the musical, the Siamese king was charming but buffoonish. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Treatment] Reference
‘He has become stuck in a buffoonish rut, and he will never escape,’ he once said. From Wordnik.com. [Chutzpah, pizzazz and style — what Dave can learn from Boris] Reference
He is fiendishly competent, and the buffoonish act and script was a confidence scheme. From Wordnik.com. [Bush: My Biggest Regret Was Failure Of Iraq Intelligence] Reference
I'd also wonder if it's the right approach to think of him as "buffoonish and childish". From Wordnik.com. [Rudy's Comic Dissembling About Dems And Terror] Reference
And then it was also used in minstrel shows where black people were made to be buffoonish. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2008] Reference
The Onion's picture of our world is skewed, buffoonish, raging, mocking and often ridiculous. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in 245 Pages] Reference
Perfect example of overblown hysterically buffoonish hyperbole common to the extreme left wing. From Wordnik.com. [American Coastopia!] Reference
In thinking about the monotonous, boring and buffoonish situation in our State Senate these pas. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Cunningham: Power to the People...Ravitch for Lt. Gov] Reference
For the good of the country as well as its increasingly buffoonish reputation, you have to do this. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Cesca: Sarah Six-pack Needs To Put Country First by Stepping Down] Reference
Seems to me that many professional women could be considered just as buffoonish in today's culture. From Wordnik.com. [xxx! love, xy] Reference
As the prototypical comedic, buffoonish dad character goes, Cleveland falls in the well-intentioned variety. From Wordnik.com. [TV Review: The Cleveland Show] Reference
Mizolwat - That may be so, but none the less, I should prefer my unwashed andantes to your buffoonish forelegs. From Wordnik.com. [The Sea at Sea (or Why is There a Question Instead of Not a Question)] Reference
Cameron had a point when he said that Boris was stuck in a buffoonish rut from which he would find it hard to escape. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Now, Borat, if your head isn't already spinning, is the buffoonish, anti-Semitic phony correspondent for Kazakh television. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2005] Reference
Stop exaggerating and creating racist nonsense that never happened so that you can justify your continued buffoonish coonery. From Wordnik.com. [Report: Obama Adviser Calls Hillary A "Monster"] Reference
The animosity — name-calling and insults — between Olbermann and rival Bill O'Reilly of Fox News sometimes borderson the buffoonish. From Wordnik.com. [Must See TV?] Reference
His buffoonish performance -- a retread of the failed Bush-Cheney energy policy with some jacuzzi jokes thrown in -- did not disappoint. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Dorner: Townhall Mobs -- Brought to You by Big Oil and Dirty Coal] Reference
What I think is funny is, that if tv spots are all you had to go on, Udall comes off as slightly buffoonish and Pearce like a snide ogre. From Wordnik.com. [A Night At The Congressional Races] Reference
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