Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or character of a clown; ill-breeding; rustic behavior; rudeness of manners.
- noun Clownish buffoonery, as in a pantomime.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Clownishness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The behaviour of a
clown ;clownishness ,tomfoolery .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I was, you know, getting in trouble for being funny and that was the first time that my class clownery was funneled in a positive direction and I think that's what 826 does.
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Sexist remarks 23%, gross anti-leftist insults 19%, gaffes and clownery 19%, xenophobic cliches 15%, rampant egotism 12%, antisemitism 7%, blasphemy 2%, homophobia 1.5%.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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There were six high schools and relentlessly foolish stunts and an attitude of indifference and clownery everywhere but the basketball court.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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I am ecstatic that anon 1:49 has lowered himself to save me from a lowly life of ass-clownery.
BSNYC Friday Fund Quits! BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Now back to my daily regiment of ass-clownery and foffing off.
BSNYC Friday Fund Quits! BikeSnobNYC 2010
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There were six high schools and relentlessly foolish stunts and an attitude of indifference and clownery everywhere but the basketball court.
Is Micheal Beasley really a "clown" and if so does it matter? 2008
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In the spring, "Producers" star Nathan Lane tries the existential clownery of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," while Mr. Lane's "Producers" co-star Matthew Broderick tackles Christopher Hampton's academia-set comedy, "The Philanthropist."
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Doesn't Britain deserve better than that clownery?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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I now desperately want to get buttons made up with the words “sloppy half-researched ass-clownery”.
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Lawyers believe that the court action looks more like a clownery rather than a real political event.
Pravda.Ru 2010
hernesheir commented on the word clownery
Get thee to a clownery.
October 24, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word clownery
"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray,
love, remember: and there is pansies. That's for thoughts."
*makes sad face and squirts water from flower pinned to lapel*
October 24, 2011
yarb commented on the word clownery
Ophelia pain, ruzuzu.
October 25, 2011