as in hijinks
wildly playful or mischievous behavior
their madcap buffoonery turned the duo into the nation's hottest comedy act
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Recent Examples of buffoonery
What’s so special about Britain’s patron wanker of bighearted buffoonery?
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Fans are fixated on his greatness juxtaposed against the rest of the Bengals’ buffoonery.
—The Athletic Nfl Staff, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
Either way the brilliance or buffoonery of that idea will shine through.
—Alex Montoya, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
Famously, Tommy Lee Jones could not sanction Jim Carrey’s buffoonery on Batman Forever.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Fans are fixated on his greatness juxtaposed against the rest of the Bengals’ buffoonery.
—The Athletic Nfl Staff, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
Either way the brilliance or buffoonery of that idea will shine through.
—Alex Montoya, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
Famously, Tommy Lee Jones could not sanction Jim Carrey’s buffoonery on Batman Forever.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for buffoonery
Noun
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Another aspect to note is that the AI didn’t ridicule me or otherwise play any tomfoolery about my need for assistance.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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This isn't the first case of April Fools' tomfoolery from BabyQuip.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2025
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Tirhakah Love is a senior writer at New York Magazine and the host of the new evening newsletter Dinner Party, a daily email that touches on all things entertainment — that means film, television, music, tech, and gaming — plus politics and corporate clownery.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
29 Apr. 2022
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The Winx Club live action is a big clownery!—
Olivia Truffaut-Wong,
refinery29.com,
25 Jan. 2021
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The action anime feature for everyone who couldn’t get enough of the horseplay in The Two Towers has finally cantered onto Max.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
1 Mar. 2025
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Mike Vrabel’s back And the horseplay is going to stop, apparently.—
Josh Kendall,
The Athletic,
11 Feb. 2025
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Eric Andre, Tyler the Creator and Machine Gun Kelly all drop by to participate in the Jack-foolery.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
2 Feb. 2022
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The whole of humanity doesn’t fit tidily into three acts, even assuming as much frame-breaking foolery as Wilder allows.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2022
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Where Wilson went slow, Kosky goes fast; his performers engage in vaudevillian prancing, slapstick scampering, Chaplinesque waddling, and acrobatic clambering.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Every so often, the E.R. is visited by rats, little symbols of disrepair and instigators of slapstick freak-outs.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Buffoonery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buffoonery. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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