Usually means: Behaving like a foolish jester.
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  1. clownish: Merriam-Webster
  2. clownish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clownish: Collins English Dictionary
  4. clownish: Vocabulary.com
  5. clownish: Wordnik
  6. clownish: Wiktionary
  7. Clownish, clownish: Dictionary.com
  8. Clownish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. clownish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. clownish: Rhymezone
  11. Clownish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. clownish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. clownish: FreeDictionary.org
  14. clownish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. clownish: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. clownish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clownish: Legal dictionary

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  1. clownish: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clownish: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See clownishly as well.)

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adjective:  Resembling or characteristic of a circus clown; comical, ridiculous.
adjective:  (now rare) Pertaining to peasants; rustic.
adjective:  (now rare) Uncultured, boorish; rough, coarse.

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