Edge

Wrestling has to be more aggressive. It has to be bigger; it has to translate to the back of a football stadium. With acting, when that camera is up close, they can see your nose hairs twitch, and you have to pull back everything for it not to look clownish. There is that different mindset.

Canadian Actor

James Buchan

Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.

British Novelist

Robert Whittaker

Michael Bisping's whole life is a film scene. He's always acting. Confronting me at UFC 213, it makes me laugh. It's a bit clownish.

Australian Athlete

While 'clownish' can seem fun, it's often used to criticize someone's behavior as foolish or embarrassing in serious situations.

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'Clownish' is more suitable for informal language and can sound out of place in formal writing or speeches.

Informal Settings

Sometimes 'clownish' implies that someone isn't deliberately trying to be funny, but rather they are unintentionally acting in a silly way.

Not Always Funny

 The cast included a roster of recurring characters. The interlocutor acted as the emcee. You had Mr. Tambo and Mr. Bones as the end men. Then you also had characters like the clownish slave Jim Crow, which was also the name of the Jim Crow laws

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 sitting there not quite gormless lee but one cannot feel any resentment for him stealing the killer from his sister it just seems to be what he does and then he looked there clownish lee into the

Clownish

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