clownishness
Example Sentences
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His efforts to be a terrifying figure are routinely undercut by his clownishness.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2025
The problem with evil clowns is that it’s the clownishness, not the evil, they soon shed.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
If you haven’t already wearied of Musk’s clownishness, you will eventually.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
Goals at the other end have declined, too, by about a third, but that’s a small price to pay if it lessens the embarrassing clownishness at the back.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2020
Indeed, when it was too late, he would laugh at himself for it, for there was in his nature, redeemed by many rare refinements, an element of clownishness.
From Swann's Way by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Scott-Moncrieff
