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He was not fit for such service, and his clownish master could make nothing of him.

We've had enough clownish debates on the Senate floor and elsewhere.

In fact, he seems quite at home giving orders to these other, more clownish, servants.

Through this frame a man in clownish dress stuck his head.

"A lot of them put spins on the story, but we wanted to do a clownish, simple version."

His cheerful and clownish behavior keeping her laughing at him.

May the idea of God perish and with it women: have they not both made me appear clownish?

They are a clownish type dog and can be a show-off at times.

"Things could be worse," he tells himself, and draws up a clownish list.

Can he wear a cheeky tie and not look clownish?

Nothing hinted at the clownish, ranting figure of later years.

My mom nodded, sitting at the kitchen table, a clownish smile of disbelief.

In this film's scheme of things, the clownish costume signals he must be a good person.

And he has been regarded as little more than a clownish newspaper humor columnist.

"The old Buddy," people said, not realizing that his illness had made him seem clownish.

As a child I certainly found their antics little more than clownish silliness.

For her, the image of the clownish Latin bombshell turned into a tragedy.

The glass heads, while beautifully colored, tend a little too simply toward the clownish.

My clownish mask no longer cloaks a breaking heart, so away with it.

The novel presents Bongo as a clownish, male young man.

But in person he seems wiser than his clownish Internet persona would suggest.

She smiled at his clownish appearance so boyish and touching.

The clownish image was still less fair to the people he ruled with an iron grip.

He also plays the fool, adopting clownish behavior so as to seem harmless.

The letter reduced the Governor to offering a clownish pronouncement.