Calling you clownish is called "descending to your opponent's level". From Wordnik.com. [Carry-Over Thread] Reference
November 13th, 2007 at 4: 49 pm stunney: Calling you clownish is called "descending to your opponent's level". From Wordnik.com. [Carry-Over Thread] Reference
He's kind of clownish, in fact, and has his own apprentice, a Las Vegas-style magician named Drake (Toby Kebbell). From Wordnik.com. ['Sorcerer's Apprentice' movie with Nic Cage, Jay Baruchel: It's far from magical] Reference
"clownish" people would congregate, drinking during all hours of the day. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
"clownish" would be a great name for a nobel prize winning Latin American hack. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
His person was robust, his manners rustic, not clownish. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Then the "clownish person" started up and demanded the adventure. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
John's clownish lingo so nearly that the family burst out laughing, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
The men were mere clowns, but the exhibition was anything but clownish. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Not only is Franken not clownish, he isn't so down-the-line liberal, either. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind of Al Franken] Reference
Perhaps it is time for us to do our little clownish best to set them laughing. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
MILBANK: The danger is he makes himself into a clownish figure in the process. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2009] Reference
Lindley Murray, and performing clownish tricks for the amusement of a gaping crowd?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
In a clownish, lubberly sort of way, he seemed to be taking good, kind care of her. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Courts, to the Cities, or to Travelling: when it is merely such, it is a clownish one. From Wordnik.com. [English Travellers of the Renaissance] Reference
Even in the placid repose of near death there was something clownish about his appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Haystack] Reference
Coming to visit her at Nohant, he was revolted by the clownish husband with whom she lived. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
His physiognomy would be clownish in expression, if his eyes did not redeem his other features. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
We procured the aid of a clownish bumpkin to carry our carpet bag, and left Warminster on foot. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath] Reference
Robin Good-fellow going over a field met with a clownish fellow, to whom he spake in this manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'] Reference
The Thais, who had banned "The King and I" 44 years ago, worried that King Mongkut would look clownish. From Wordnik.com. [Making A Modern Day 'King And I'] Reference
Two of the most endearing characters in Disney's "The Lion King" are the clownish pals Timon and Pumbaa. From Wordnik.com. [How Kids See the World] Reference
Rex and Nero acrobatically locked forepaws and rolled over and over in a clownish excess of congeniality. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
'Tow-head,' 'gawky,' 'plain,' and 'clownish,' are some of the most uncomplimentary epithets applied to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua] Reference
Some of his advances were excruciatingly modest: his clownish shoes, for instance, were only slightly oversize. From Wordnik.com. [It’s a White Thing] Reference
Rodman avoided most of the fallout and evolved into the talented, clownish, troubled celebrity he became in the 1990s. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Lapointe: Isiah Thomas Memory: Big Heat in the Racial Kitchen] Reference
And it was indeed a magical-seeming effect that we all witnessed as Jan's almost clownish posture came into our sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Stream and The Torrent] Reference
KURTZ: Donald Trump, you call him a "clownish reality show artifact living the high life in Manhattan and Palm Beach.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2009] Reference
Dignity of behavior yields to clownish silliness, and the person lately respected is now an object of pity and loathing. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
She was inconsolable, despite my wife's best efforts to coo and comfort her and my clownish efforts to try and amuse her. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Simon's Family: 'In Praise Of Adoption'] Reference
Captain Marryatt, who was simply clownish, -- afford fair examples of the style which dominated until about 1836 or 1837. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
The passages interpolated by Mr Horne's own pen are as bad as possible -- clownish and anti-Chaucerian to the last degree. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
The wit depends on the ugliness, the perversity, and the clownish character of Dametas, his wife, and their daughter Mopsa. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
The traditional view in Britain that far-right parties were regarded as "clownish" had been severely tested, "said the magazine. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
I have often tried to say to you personally what I am about to write, but was prevented by a kind of almost clownish bashfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
He exactly renders the mingled simplicity and cunning of the conscript; the tricks of the barrack-room grafted upon clownish dulness. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference
POTTS: I don't think that the importance of the message is diminished by the antics or the clownish things at all because it's grave. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2007] Reference
POTTS: And I don't think that the importance of the message is diminished by the antics or the clownish things at all because it's grave. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2007] Reference
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