Definition of "vaudevillian" []

• One, especially a performer, who works in vaudeville. (noun)

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• "If I use the phrase vaudevillian for Bill Clinton, by contrast you think that President Bush has a front row seat to watch rather than to perform."
• "In his more relaxed moments, Bernard's speech fell into a kind of vaudevillian patois."
• "Rebecca Mead, writing in the New Yorker, dubbed him "the Marx Brother" and described his approach thus: "His favoured form of argument is paradox, and his favoured mode of delivery is a kind of vaudevillian overstatement, buttressed by the appearance of utter conviction.""