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clowning
adjective as in waggish
noun as in farcicality
noun as in fun
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noun as in ha-ha
noun as in horseplay
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noun as in humor
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noun as in humorousness
noun as in jocosity
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noun as in joke
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noun as in ludicrousness
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- amusement
- badinage
- banter
- buffoonery
- comedy
- comicality
- comicalness
- drollery
- drollness
- facetiousness
- farce
- farcicality
- flippancy
- fun
- funniness
- gag
- gaiety
- happiness
- high spirits
- humorousness
- jest
- jesting
- jocoseness
- jocosity
- jocularity
- joke
- joking
- joyfulness
- kidding
- levity
- lightness
- playfulness
- pleasantry
- raillery
- ridiculousness
- tomfoolery
- whimsy
- wisecrack
- wit
- witticism
- wittiness
- zaniness
noun as in tomfoolery
Example Sentences
And sometimes clowning around is enough.
“I’m going to be clowning him at home,” Dominik said.
Similarly, The Independent awarded the film two-stars and said that there are some "wonderful gags and enjoyably grotesque clowning from Keaton" but Burton's "ability to tell a coherent story is very much in doubt".
She also talks about her practice of plotting novels on gigantic pieces of butcher paper, her preference for writing under a deadline, and her decision to take clowning classes as part of a mission to write side-splittingly funny fiction.
Katy Perry joins the list of people clowning Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker for his controversial remarks that have been labeled as sexist and homophobic.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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