| John Lithgow has never been worse in his cartoonish and buffoonish role as the evil toymaker. |
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| Callow might look and play the buffoonish lush on screen, but he began on the great stage and continues to act and direct. |
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| It's as if these two sides of his character, the passion and the buffoonish clumsiness are interlocked, as if he's a pan that's continually on the verge of boiling over. |
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| I can never be sure whether I come across as witty or buffoonish at work. |
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| Even Daffy Duck's avaricious histrionics are amusing in a buffoonish way. |
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| It enables buffoonish generals to rock up on Radio 4 and splutter bilge about punching above our weight. |
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| A good rule of thumb in politics is that if you are annoying the buffoonish BoJo you must be doing something right. |
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| It is perhaps difficult for younger readers to understand that a buffoonish old man could wield this kind of power. |
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| That buffoonish behaviour, the clownish exuberance masks a hard right idealogue of unlimited ambition. |
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| The opposition remains largely spontaneous and without a clear leader, but its animus is now directed as much against the hitherto untouchable Mr Khamenei as against his buffoonish presidential protégé. |
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| A related difficulty is that open-minded observers will want to know why buffoonish impostors can pose such a threat to the great edifice of science. |
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| As Rowan Atkinson demonstrated in his second Mr Bean film, buffoonish man-children are only funny up to a certain age, at which point they become creepy. |
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| It was not the buffoonish nature of the speakers or their allegedly comedic intention but rather the ugly words spoken by Robert that were the problem. |
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| According to the online urban dictionary a 'bro' is an 'alpha male idiot' while others, particularly when it is referred to someone who is white, see it as a buffoonish term. |
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| Buffoonish teaching assistant Mr Poppy joins forces with Lauren to restore her father's memory by visiting favourite haunts from his childhood. |
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