clownishness
Example Sentences
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His efforts to be a terrifying figure are routinely undercut by his clownishness.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2025
The problem with evil clowns is that it’s the clownishness, not the evil, they soon shed.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
Goals at the other end have declined, too, by about a third, but that’s a small price to pay if it lessens the embarrassing clownishness at the back.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2020
The movie collapses the difference between Rudy Ray Moore and the character he created, treating his creativity as another kind of high-spirited clownishness, and his struggle for recognition as a comic hustle.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2019
The camp and the press echoed them though the Cabinet frowned--secretaries said that they exposed the illustrious speaker to charges of "clownishness and buffoonery."
From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Williams, Henry Llewellyn
