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    buffoon


    1. "I wish I could share your conviction," Serpent said, "but I've seen this Man who is meant to dominate us and he is a complete buffoon!"


    2. day, you buffoon and that is why we are blessed with such life


    3. “This buffoon is no longer your Sheriff, but he hasn’t figured that out yet


    4. The letter had been signed and sealed by the Castigator of the Outer Territories as well, Ursempyre Remis, the acting Arch-minister Burge Freis, and that buffoon, the Procrastinator Militant, Gomermont


    5. “Dare you to replace it with Buffoon


    6. What a silly puffed-up buffoon


    7. This buffoon had stumbled onto the one issue that was causing serious back-room debate in Historian circles


    8. “It’s the child, my dearie, the masked buffoon! You know him, my sweet! He is the fisherman’s son, and now he’s a problem


    9. “Who is that buffoon?” the prince asked, teeth clenched


    10. “He's a buffoon people laugh at, wretched and weak

    11. “So you’re relying on that buffoon Alistair to make a case against me? That’s hilarious, it would be my word against his and I have much more credibility in my little finger than that idiot has in his whole body


    12. ‘Put that gun away you cretinous buffoon, and get out of this room with the rest of those miserable curs


    13. “Joey you blasted buffoon!” Lezura said, “You should be on the ship! Why did you turn back?”


    14. Though her husband was rather a conceited buffoon, she was very charming, genuine, and gracious, much like an innocent child who had no suspicions or prejudices in the world


    15. He didn't want to offend a neighbor, whose lawn mower he had borrowed countless times in the past when the discount ones he always bought ended up engulfed in flames, but at the same time he could never inflict an empty-headed buffoon on a paying client


    16. So the final chapter of the buffoon is played out on the head of the vile creature


    17. “If that incompetent buffoon Makienko is not on the first aeroplane out of here tomorrow morning,” he hissed, “then you will be on the next


    18. Bumble headed buffoon won't know what to do with you, but that’s better than you moping around here


    19. like a complete buffoon


    20. "Rueben, the big buffoon, hasn't even introduced himself to the lovely lady,"

    21. The moon, aswoon, cried, “You buffoon,


    22. ‘What a buffoon this guy has been,’ he sat thinking


    23. listen since they know everything while their shortcomings makes science more the jesting of a buffoon


    24. "And to be sure you're right: God has given me a figure that can awaken none but comic ideas in other people; a buffoon; but let me tell you, and I repeat it, excuse an old man, my dear Rodion Romanovitch, you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so you put intellect above everything, like all young people


    25. However, he said they might give the shirt to Sancho; and shutting himself in with him in a room where there was a sumptuous bed, he undressed and put on the shirt; and then, finding himself alone with Sancho, he said to him, "Tell me, thou new-fledged buffoon and old booby, dost thou think it right to offend and insult a duenna so deserving of reverence and respect as that one just now? Was that a time to bethink thee of thy Dapple, or are these noble personages likely to let the beasts fare badly when they treat their owners in such elegant style? For God's sake, Sancho, restrain thyself, and don't show the thread so as to let them see what a coarse, boorish texture thou art of


    26. Dost thou not see--shortsighted being that thou art, and unlucky mortal that I am!--that if they perceive thee to be a coarse clown or a dull blockhead, they will suspect me to be some impostor or swindler? Nay, nay, Sancho friend, keep clear, oh, keep clear of these stumbling-blocks; for he who falls into the way of being a chatterbox and droll, drops into a wretched buffoon the first time he trips; bridle thy tongue, consider and weigh thy words before they escape thy mouth, and bear in mind we are now in quarters whence, by God's help, and the strength of my arm, we shall come forth mightily advanced in fame and fortune


    27. The same is true of comedy,--you may often laugh at buffoonery which you would be ashamed to utter, and the love of coarse merriment on the stage will at last turn you into a buffoon at home


    28. And does not the same hold also of the ridiculous? There are jests which you would be ashamed to make yourself, and yet on the comic stage, or indeed in private, when you hear them, you are greatly amused by them, and are not at all disgusted at their unseemliness;--the case of pity is repeated;--there is a principle in human nature which is disposed to raise a laugh, and this which you once restrained by reason, because you were afraid of being thought a buffoon, is now let out again; and having stimulated the risible faculty at the theatre, you are betrayed unconsciously to yourself into playing the comic poet at home


    29. "Beware, boys! I have not come here to be your buffoon


    30. “More accurately, a buffoon

    31. ’ I can’t imagine anything more different from what you are than a buffoon


    32. O I had heard tell of Colley Cibber, the Comedian, and his Whoremaster Son, Theophilus (who was then beginning his notorious Career as a Player at the Drury Lane), but little did I expect that such a noted Buffoon would be my first Swain at Mother Coxtart’s Brothel! E’en in Wiltshire, ’twas known that the young Cibber suffer’d mightily from his Father’s Notoriety, his Whoring, Gaming, and Debauchery—and sought to outdo his ev’ry Excess


    33. That this simp’ring Buffoon thought himself born to be another Betterton was the Common Knowledge (and the Common Jest) of the Town


    34. I was a fool, the tragic buffoon who lives in the forest


    35. He was the buffoon, who went by a woman’s name, Nastasya Ivanovna


    36. Nastasya Ivanovna the buffoon sat with a sad face at the window with two old ladies


    37. ‘Nastasya Ivanovna, what sort of children shall I have?’ she asked the buffoon, who was


    38. ‘Why, fleas, crickets, grasshoppers,’ answered the buffoon


    39. She said and felt at that time that no man was more to her than Nastasya Ivanovna, the buffoon


    40. Though people were afraid of Marya Dmitrievna she was regarded in Petersburg as a buffoon, and so of what she had said they only noticed, and repeated in a whisper, the one coarse word she had used, supposing the whole sting of her remark to lie in that word

    41. Not because he had his hair curled at the barber’s, not because he was in such a hurry to show his wit, but because he is a spy, a speculator, because he is a skin-flint and a buffoon


    42. “The devil only knows, what if he deceives us?” thought Miüsov, still hesitating, and watching the retreating buffoon with distrustful eyes


    43. “Where can you have heard it? You Karamazovs brag of being an ancient, noble family, though your father used to run about playing the buffoon at other men's tables, and was only admitted to the kitchen as a favor


    44. show them that I've nothing to do with that Æsop, that buffoon, that Pierrot, and have merely been taken in over this affair, just as they have


    45. He remembered his own words at the elder's: “I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon; so I say let me play the buffoon, for you are, every one of you, stupider and lower than I


    46. Miüsov, my relation, prefers to have plus de noblesse que de sincérité in his words, but I prefer in mine plus de sincérité que de noblesse, and—damn the noblesse! That's right, isn't it, von Sohn? Allow me, Father Superior, though I am a buffoon and play the buffoon, yet I am the soul of honor, and I want to speak my mind


    47. Fyodor Pavlovitch was an obstinate and cunning buffoon, yet, though his will was strong enough “in some of the affairs of life,” as he expressed it, he found himself, to his surprise, extremely feeble in facing certain other emergencies


    48. It is true that at that time he was overdoing his part as a buffoon


    49. “Buffoon!” blurted out the girl at the window


    50. A petty knave, a toady and buffoon, of fairly good, though undeveloped, intelligence, he was, above all, a moneylender, who grew bolder with growing prosperity

















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    Synonyms for "buffoon"

    buffoon clown goof goofball merry andrew fool drool harlequin jester zany

    "buffoon" definitions

    a rude or vulgar fool


    a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior