Definition of Clownishness

1. n. The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.

Definition of Clownishness

1. Noun. the state of being clownish ¹

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Definition of Clownishness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clownishness

clown car
clown cars
clown doctor
clown doctors
clown shoe
clown shoes
clownage
clowned
clowneries
clownery
clownfish
clownfishes
clowning
clownish
clownishly
clownishness (current term)
clownishnesses
clownlike
clownology
clowns
clows
cloxacillin
cloxacillin sodium
cloxacillins
cloxazolam
cloy
cloye
cloyed
cloyes
cloying

Literary usage of Clownishness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. John Ruskin by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1900)
"Ruskin about art"; and the inferior clownishness of that reviewer is only the latest mimicking of the higher clownishness of criticism a little earlier ..."

2. John Ruskin by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1900)
"Ruskin about art"; and the inferior clownishness of that reviewer is only the latest mimicking of the higher clownishness of criticism a little earlier ..."

3. The North-Carolina Journal of Education by James D. Campbell, Calvin Henderson Wiley (1858)
"... which is neither more nor less than pure clownishness. If rusticity is the simplicity of sature, we confess we do not admire nature in that state. ..."

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