clownishness

noun

Definition of clownishnessnext
1
as in boorishness

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as in buffoonery

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clownishness
  1. buffoonery
  2. flippancy
  3. insouciance
  4. indelicacy
  5. vulgarity
  6. crudity
Noun
  • Fans are fixated on his greatness juxtaposed against the rest of the Bengals’ buffoonery.
    The Athletic NFL Staff, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Either way the brilliance or buffoonery of that idea will shine through.
    Alex Montoya, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of buffoonery
Noun
  • Gone are the days of treating the vast majority of our skin with unwarranted flippancy.
    Allure, Allure, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Almodovar’s flippancy here is his tribute to the relentless of his women.
    IndieWire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
Definition of flippancy
Noun
  • The theme’s implicit insouciance becomes perplexing when accompanied by scientific studies and even a World Health Organization report touting the healing properties of art.
    Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
  • That showed the insouciance of someone who belongs.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of insouciance
Noun
  • The Trump era is one of indelicacy, profanity, and real—not imagined—misogyny, and its flacks deserve a language that matches up.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 5 June 2018
  • Trump added, seemingly referring to the indelicacy of directly attacking a war hero who is fighting brain cancer.
    Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
Definition of indelicacy
Noun
  • But the vulgarity of reading the dress as truthful or not about the body inside was astounding.
    Susan Steade, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Miss Manners is relieved not to be asked what to do about that vulgarity.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of vulgarity
Noun
  • And, while its crudity is certainly purposeful, its sense of purpose can be elusive at times.
    Phillip Maciak, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Although Günther Groissböck cleaned up better than the usual Ochs, his portrayal lacked nothing for crudity.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
Definition of crudity
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