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/ˈklaʊ̯n/ · noun
A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig..
Over there in Norway, the churches all burn down / Let's go dress in goth clothes and get painted like a clown
He was regarded as the clown of the school, always playing pranks.
"The dealers snatched at the state of intellectual exhaustion and scepticism of all values that followed the first world war to abolish values and substitute for them an arbitrary mumbo-jumbo of occultism and pseudo-Freudianism, which they tagged on to the works of studio clowns like Picasso and Modigliani and the like."
Doc Bruce Banner, belted by gamma rays, Turns into the Hulk – Ain’t he unglamour-rays! [unglamorous] Wreckin’ the town with the power of a bull, Ain’t no monster, clown. Who is as lovable As ever-lovin’ Hulk? - Hulk! Hulk!
Everything’s on the table, the specs are there in the RFP and can’t be changed by some clown in the Air Force who happens to come up with a new idea.
'Breaking my sister's heart then getting pissed with his mates in the very next pub while she's sobbing alone?' I dragged this clown away from the fruitie and back to Amy next door, running my mouth off at him as we went.
This loutish clown is such that you never saw so ill - favoured a vizar
[…] three things ought always to be kept under: a mastiff dog, a stone horse and a clown; and really I think a snarling, cross-grained clown to be the most unlucky beast of three.
Use clown when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Clown means A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig..
Common synonyms include fool, jester, and laughingstock, clown on.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Over there in Norway, the churches all burn down / Let's go dress in goth clothes and get painted like a clown
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