Use "buffoonery" in a sentence

1. This vision started a smile on my lips that Duprina interpreted as a buffoonery on my part

2. Ben Franklin had, manual skills, religious heterodoxy, wit and buffoonery, political and business shrewdness and ability to write

3. And nothing has given a greater shock to many men of searching and acute parts, and more than ordinary capacities, than the insisting upon and pressing the vulgar topics of the natural immortality, immateriality, and spirituality of the soul, of all which it’s so difficult to form any idea, and thus we find too often that by the unsatisfactory management of them they only minister matter of burlesque, buffoonery, scorn, and contempt, for the asserting of which we find our philosophical theologies run down and silenced most shamefully, by even illiterates, and women, very frequently, in conversation

4. Nothing, unless indeed the coarse buffoonery of Phillips, could be more out of place in an attempt to represent Cervantes, than a flippant, would-be facetious style, like that of Motteux's version for example, or the sprightly, jaunty air, French translators sometimes adopt

5. 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

6. It was a surprising association of men quite eminent in their professions who met once a month for an evening of ceremonious buffoonery; each had his sobriquet Bridey was called 'Brother Grandee' - and a specially designed jewel worn like an order of chivalry, symbolizing it; they had club buttons for their waistcoats and an elaborate ritual for the introduction of guests; after dinner a paper was read and facetious speeches were made

7. "Buffoonery, tricks, ridicule the test of truth—all that is very well"— here an unpleasant egg broke on Mr

8. Nothing but buffoonery from beginning to end

9. “Speak without buffoonery, and don't begin by insulting the members of your family,” answered the elder, in a faint, exhausted voice

10. But at this point another almost incredible scene of grotesque buffoonery gave the finishing touch to the episode

11. He had gone back to his original tone of resentful buffoonery

12. Nina, Ilusha's gentle, crippled sister, did not like her father's buffoonery either (Varvara had been gone for some time past to Petersburg to study at the university)

13. Her best qualities were, as a rule, buried under the most harum-scarum wilfulness, the most schoolboyish pranks, almost verging on buffoonery; they were rarely noticed, and, when they were, were hardly believed in, so that now her extraordinary brilliancy was accompanied by an eager whisper of amazement among all