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Buffoon

/bəˈfun/
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(noun) One who performs in a silly or ridiculous fashion; a clown or fool.

Tom is what my father would call a buffoon.
Zelensky may well be a buffoon, but he is hardly fascist.
CEFR Practice Quiz
He acted like a ____ to make all the children laugh at the party city.

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