Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or characteristic of clowns or rustics; like a clown; rude; coarse; awkward; ungainly.
- Abounding in clowns; dull; stupid; uncultured; unrefined: as, “a clownish neighbourhood,” Synonyms Churlish, Loutish, etc. See
boorish .
Wiktionary
- adj. Pertaining to peasants; rustic.
- adj. Uncultured, boorish; rough, coarse.
- adj. Like a circus clown; comical, ridiculous.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. like a clown
Etymologies
- From clown + -ish. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“Calling you clownish is called "descending to your opponent's level".”
“November 13th, 2007 at 4: 49 pm stunney: Calling you clownish is called "descending to your opponent's level".”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“He's kind of clownish, in fact, and has his own apprentice, a Las Vegas-style magician named Drake (Toby Kebbell).”
“The intense definition of the character's menacing facial structure was never truly captured on film till TDK, often looking more "clownish" than intimidating, and never has the character been taken seriously, IMO.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clownish’.
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Whimsical
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In merriment
guffaw, peduncle, glow-worm symphon..., acoustic shadow, clownish, unbridled mirth
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