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Clownishness   Listen
noun
Clownishness  n.  The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. "That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Clownishness" Quotes from Famous Books



... might more closely and briefly pursue my present design, which, no doubt will not please every man; for since I treat of that part of Poetry, which (to use Quintilian's words,) by reason of its Clownishness, is affraid of the Court and City; some may imagine that I follow Nichocaris his humor, who would paint only the most ugly and deform'd, and those too in the meanest and most frightful dress, that real, or fancy'd ...
— De Carmine Pastorali (1684) • Rene Rapin



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