Translations for „buffoonish“ in the English » German Dictionary

buffoonish ADJ

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English

White entertainers with black makeup on their faces portrayed black people as lazy, ignorant and buffoonish.

sundial.csun.edu

He is buffoonish and insecure in his own professional status and social standing.

en.wikipedia.org

The buffoonish 70-year-old billionaire with orange face, small hands and strange hair has picked ceaseless fights with judges, journalists and television jokers.

www.dailymail.co.uk

It was pure caricature -- cartoonish, buffoonish, mean-spirited caricature.

www.theblaze.com

He is, by turns, a brilliant and buffoonish critic of global capitalism.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Indeed, the lashing out is beginning to look less and less fearsome, and more and more impulsively buffoonish and self-defeating.

www.stuff.co.nz

His utterances are often buffoonish, his politics a mix of crude populism and sinister racial demagoguery.

www.telegraph.co.uk

A plot of underworld double-crossings and police stings (with an added touch of buffoonish humour) is framed against flat, grey landscapes and dense silences.

metro.co.uk

Minstrel shows lampooned black people as dim-witted, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, happy-go-lucky, and musical.

en.wikipedia.org

If it is all a game, it doesn't explain what these players are trying to say to the buffoonish blogger by playing it.

torontoist.com