clownish
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Synonyms
boorish, churlish, classless, cloddish, loutish, uncouth
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And a lot of us wouldn’t be seen dead on a scooter, the clownish version of a Segway. — Joe Queenan, WSJ, "Sharing Services Need to Have More Imagination," 7 June 2019 But naturally, some people find Roma and the Sisters off-putting because of their clownish makeup or the perception that their work mocks religion. — Daniel Villarreal, Vox, "Drag queens are more political than ever. Can they lead a movement?," 5 Nov. 2018 This wasn’t the Djokovic who’d been such an joyous treat in his prime—a superstar capable of being chatty and funny and clownish, even on the court. — Jason Gay, WSJ, "Novak’s Back—and Here Comes Tall John Isner," 12 July 2018 The Rays’ strategy wasn’t quite clownish or burlesque, and there might actually be something to it. — Emma Baccellieri, SI.com, "The Rays and Marlins Played An Incredibly Strange Game on Tuesday Night," 4 July 2018 The Sox will show promise one day and look clownish the next. — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, "How much longer will the White Sox rebuild take?," 28 June 2018 Steve Feinberg Like Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Feinberg took the Trump plunge during the campaign, when The Donald was still considered a clownish long shot. — Harry Jaffe, Town & Country, "Who Are Donald Trump's Closest Friends?," 18 Apr. 2017 Annie’s death, her murder, has never been seriously investigated by the Baltimore Police Department — not in the initial homicide investigation, and not in the clownish cold-case investigation in 2013. — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, "Parents of Annie McCann, found dead in Baltimore of ‘Bactine poisoning,’ press Gov. Hogan to intervene," 6 Mar. 2018 The regular Republican Party of tax cuts for the rich and deregulation of polluters and the financial industry once seemed to be set apart from its clownish demagogue presidential candidate. — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, "How the Trump Tax Cuts Solved the Democrats’ Campaign Problem," 20 Dec. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'clownish.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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