How To Use Clownish In A Sentence
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The clownish grin of a bridled parrotfish reveals its power tools: grinding teeth used to scrape algae from rock.
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How fortunate for him that Dobby is so clownish than no one need sympathize with him, much less identify with him.
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I guess to their fellow homeboys this is hilarious and considered de rigueur, but to the rest of the world they seem clownish.
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Tracy wholeheartedly rejects hard work (this is best captured in the episode called "The Natural Order," in which it is demonstrated that only in an "upside-down" world could Tracy be asked to sincerely labor), and so he relies on his preternatural clownishness and the coattails of his paternal writers and producers for success.
Zeeshan Aleem: Is 30 Rock the Most Racist Show on Television?
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They risked their lives to present these theater shows, disguising their political commentary behind clownish puppets.
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And ignorance, and what is termed clownishness, are surely an evil?
PHILEBUS
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They try to get the public to dress up in the most clownish clothes possible while paying the fashion industry good money to look like a doofus.
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Shame is a pitiable and clownish condition, most appallingly pitiable and clownish on television.
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Rubio is yet another clownish conservative whose primary skill is sounding tought and feathering his own nest and yet the tea party sees him as the second coming of Ronald Reagan.
Crist brushes off top adviser's resignation
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An ailing mobster in a wheelchair and using an oxygen tank was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in prison for what a judge called a "clownish" murder-for-hire plot that was never carried out.
KansasCity.com: Front Page
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Instead of oddly cheery or mildly clownish weathermen, they offered unapologetic scientists who explained the weather in glorious detail.
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For all the colorful costumes and props and clownishness, this production lacks the emotional and mythic dimensions of Beaumont's vision.
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Today, magic is something to scoff at - the clownish domain left to oversexed prestidigitators and gay animal trainers in tights.
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A bounce of thick, curly, sandy hair gave him a rather clownish appearance.
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I can see how his combination of gentle clownishness and fierce curmudgeonliness would have a muse-like effect on the people he works with.
Serious and Silly Filmmaking in Denmark
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He saw himself as a ludicrous figure, acting as a pennyboy for his aunts, a nervous, well-meaning sentimentalist, orating to vulgarians and idealising his own clownish lusts, the pitiable fatuous fellow he had caught a glimpse of in the mirror.
Dubliners
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a clownish face
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The women wore long magenta dresses embroidered with huge black circles; the men were in black suits, except for one - a clownish individual.
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My clownish mask no longer cloaks a breaking heart, so away with it.
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Because Katz ‘loses’ the instruction manual, he deploys his powers in a ham-handed and clownish manner.
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Others are cast as caricatures representative of different sections of society: the reserved broker, the clownish sports fanatic, and the vicious racist.
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I also find Rylance's outfit a tad too obvious in its clownishness.
Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: Lombardi Scores a Field Goal; La Bete Better for Actors
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In the dream, you prefer this way of dressing, but perhaps it is time to lighten up a bit, put on a costume, and enjoy some clownish fun.
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For example, in American cinema they were caricatured as clownish, desexualised mammies or maids.
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Meantime we must remark, that the first three of Mr. Campbell's variations are mere caprices of the press; as is Shagspere; or, more probably, this last euphonious variety arose out of the gross clownish pronunciation of the two hiccuping _ "marksmen" _ who rode over to Worcester for the license; and one cannot forbear laughing at the bishop's secretary for having been so misled by two varlets, professedly incapable of signing their own names.
Biographical Essays
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The cover shows a man in white suit with a ridiculous polka dotted tie, even more absurd spotted socks, and clownish white and black shoes.
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And even if Mozart was an often bumptious prankster, I cannot buy Shaffer's unhinged buffoon, especially when Michael Sheen, camping sky-high, is disgraceful in the early clownish sequences and creepy in the later pathetic ones.
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On either side of him the grotesque, clownish faces; set in the brilliant mosaic walls assumed a more menacing, protective aspect.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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The way he sped up, as if no one would notice, was a beautifully stupid clownish moment.
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Giasone" (1649) is a comic farrago on the Jason-Medea-Golden Fleece tale, with Jason as a serial debaucher, Medea switching from jealous harpy to generous relinquisher of said Jason to her rival Isifile (both women have given birth to twins sired by Jason), and a bevy of clownish servants.
On a Tattered Shoestring
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Sometimes the only thing to do is laugh at their clownishness.
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Big, white suit jacket with black pinstripes, baggy black pants with white pinstripes -- kind of clownish, but looking heavier and healthier than in his Sex Pistols days.
Hey isn't that...?: Johnny Rotten
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I don't want the doll to have the wide, clownish smile some toy dolls have.
WEB OF DREAMS
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The dance floor is crowded with performers who are preening either with feminine realness or clownish flamboyance.
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A passionate leap across a sofa back to reach a beloved becomes a clownish somersault along the entire length of the couch.
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Anyone who repeats the NPR spin majors in clownishness.
Send in the Clowns
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It's doubtful if either has the chops for such clownishness, although they both are reputed to have fierce tempers.
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The cover shows a man in a white suit with a ridiculous polka-dotted tie, even more absurd spotted socks, and clownish white and black shoes.
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His demeanour was so blunt as sometimes might be termed clownish, yet there was in his language and manner a force and energy corresponding to his character, which impressed awe, if it did not impose respect; and there were even times when that dark and subtle spirit expanded itself, so as almost to conciliate affection.
Woodstock
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Like no one before him or since, he shows the clownishness of playing at revolution—clownishness that, in this novel, results in tragedy.
To the Barricades! Revolutionaries in Novels
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November 13th, 2007 at 4: 49 pm stunney: Calling you clownish is called "descending to your opponent's level".
Carry-Over Thread
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but since the "literature" of the hack is so perverse and disturbing in its "message," the term clownish is too light and good natured to be appropriate.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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A small, busy-looking woman with a mop of red curls that made her look slightly clownish, she smiled at Malone.
MURDER SONG
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This is going to be a test for Sen. Obama; if he can get through this kind of clownishness without losing it, he will have earned whatever prize is at the end of the trail.
The Wright Stuff
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Criticism as "grunt work" -- laboring on behalf of works of literature because they deserve intelligent analysis -- seems to me a perfectly respectable undertaking, especially when it's paired against the kind of clownish performances Anderson tries to defend.
Book Reviewing
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Some characters are portrayed as clownish or pathetic, yet its main characters are actually quite conventional in style and dress.
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SOCRATES: And ignorance, and what is termed clownishness, are surely an evil?
Philebus
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It carries with it connotations both of simplicity and naturalness as well as ill-breeding and clownishness.
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It's doubtful if either of the two gentlemen have the chops for such clownishness, although they both are reputed to have fierce tempers.
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Calling you clownish is called "descending to your opponent's level".
Carry-Over Thread
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Its leader, the artist formerly known as Paris Lewis who now goes by the amusingly generic hyper-African moniker "Dr. Malik Zulu Shabazz," is the kind of clownish caricature Fox News loves to trot out at regular intervals.
Chez Pazienza: Fox and the Hounding
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The figure and ground merge and transform into a garish clownishness you've never seen before, a space that is strange, familiar, and credible.
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On a dance floor crowded with drag performers who are preening either with feminine realness or clownish flamboyance, Aviance is a unique creature.
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Watching Italy's PM Silvio Berlusconi, France's President Nicholas Sarkozy and other world leaders squirm with embarrassment walking next to Gaddafi decked out in flamboyant, clownish uniforms straight from an Italian "opera buffo" was always amusing.
Eric Margolis: Gaddafi: The Fox Is Cornered
