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Definition of Clownishness
1. n. The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.
Definition of Clownishness
1. Noun. the state of being clownish ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clownishness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clownishness
Literary usage of Clownishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. John Ruskin by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1900)
"Ruskin about art"; and the inferior clownishness of that reviewer is only the
latest mimicking of the higher clownishness of criticism a little earlier ..."
2. John Ruskin by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1900)
"Ruskin about art"; and the inferior clownishness of that reviewer is only the
latest mimicking of the higher clownishness of criticism a little earlier ..."
3. The North-Carolina Journal of Education by James D. Campbell, Calvin Henderson Wiley (1858)
"... which is neither more nor less than pure clownishness. If rusticity is the
simplicity of sature, we confess we do not admire nature in that state. ..."
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