clownish

How To Use clownish In A Sentence

• 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
• The way he sped up, as if no one would notice, was a beautifully stupid clownish moment.
• 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
• Sometimes the only thing to do is laugh at their clownishness.
• 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
• I don't want the doll to have the wide, clownish smile some toy dolls have. WEB OF DREAMS
• The dance floor is crowded with performers who are preening either with feminine realness or clownish flamboyance.
• A passionate leap across a sofa back to reach a beloved becomes a clownish somersault along the entire length of the couch.
• Anyone who repeats the NPR spin majors in clownishness. Send in the Clowns
• It's doubtful if either has the chops for such clownishness, although they both are reputed to have fierce tempers.