clown
Example Sentences
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“Our Boo deserves better than those two clowns,” she says.
From Literature
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They looked like a dog made by a clown at a birthday party, except some of them were up to ten feet tall and solid.
From Literature
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He drank tall glasses of orange juice in seedy dives as he infiltrated an underworld of bank-robbing clowns and bird-obsessed mobsters.
From Salon
But Owen had been so busy clowning around to get George to lighten up that he’d forgotten to grab the shotgun from the snowmobile.
From Literature
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Blake Lively referred to Justin Baldoni as a "doofus director" and a "clown", according to newly unsealed court documents from the actress's legal case.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.