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Definition of Clownishly
1. Adverb. In a clownish, undignified, or foolish manner; absurdly, ridiculously. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clownishly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clownishly
Literary usage of Clownishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Layamon's Brut, Or Chronicle of Britain: A Poetical Semi-Saxon Paraphrase of by Layamon, Frederic Madden (1847)
"... bashfully, clownishly," as if from a Scandinavian root, and akin to the Scot,
blait. This is, however, a mistake, as the sense is here certain from ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1873)
"... preying upon, and destroying of poultry. —Bay's Pref., p. 3, 1. 34. Henting, sb.
one that wants good brooding, that behaves himself clownishly. ..."
3. The Colloquies of Erasmus by Desiderius Erasmus, Edwin Johnson (1878)
"You seem not to have been bred at Court, but in a Cow-stall ; you behave yourself
so clownishly. A Gentleman ought to behave himself like a Gentleman. ..."
4. The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic (1900)
"They also were ignorant, clownishly ignorant : the difference was that they were
doomed by native incapacity to go on all their lives without ever finding ..."
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