On the other hand, Boreham's out-worn evening-suit was simply buffoonish.
"Mortal Coils"
Aldous Huxley
It is part of a letter from the minister of the Rajah of Berar, a man called Benaram Pundit, with whom Mr. Hastings was at the time treating for a peace; and he tells him why he might have had peace at that time, and why he had it not,-and that the cause of it was his own ridiculous and even buffoonish perfidiousness, which exposed him to the ridicule of all the princes of India, and with him the whole British nation.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XII. (of XII.)"
Edmund Burke