Crossword-Solution: CLOWNISH 8 letters, 30 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Clownish a. Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown;
ungainly; awkward.

We have 30 clues for the answer “CLOWNISH”

Clue Answers
Ridiculously exaggerated 1 answer
Pixar's Nemo, e.g. 1 answer
Like a buffoon 1 answer
clowning 9 answers
cloddish 10 answers
Impersonating. 14 answers
emulative 19 answers
Imitating 23 answers
apish 25 answers
Oafish 25 answers
Ape-like 26 answers
Neanderthal 26 answers
Copying 30 answers
anthropoid 31 answers
Copycat 50 answers
blundering 53 answers
Primate 53 answers
Imitative 54 answers
ungraceful 55 answers
Rustic 57 answers
Bumbling 58 answers
humorous 59 answers
Ungainly 61 answers
Zany 62 answers
Droll 63 answers
"Ridiculous!" 64 answers
Bungling 73 answers
Boorish 73 answers
Uncouth 78 answers
Silly 83 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CLOWNISH (5)

Resembling or having the quality of a bozo; that is, clownish, ludicrously wrong, unintentionally humorous.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
The Disinherited Knight refused all other assistance save that of his own squire, or rather yeoman—a clownish-looking man, who, wrapt in a cloak of dark-coloured felt, and having his head and face half-buried in a Norman bonnet made of black fur, seemed to affect the incognito as much as his master.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
The very innocence of Lapham's life in the direction in which he had erred wrought against him in the young man's mood: it contained the insult of clownish inexperience.
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 2008
The second thought streaming from the death-ship and the curving river is the thought of the older South: the sincere and passionate belief that somewhere between men and cattle God created a tertium quid, and called it a Negro,--a clownish, simple creature, at times even lovable within its limitations, but straitly foreordained to walk within the Veil.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008
The raffish young gentleman in gloves must measure his scholarship with the plain, clownish laddie from the parish school.
Memories and Portraits Robert Louis Stevenson 2010

Quotes with CLOWNISH (3)

I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background. Just like the Cheshire cat, someday I will suddenly leave, but the artificial warmth of my smile, that phony, clownish curve, the kind you see on miserably sad people and villains in Disney movies, will remain behind as an ironic remnant. I am the girl you see in the photograph from some party someplace or some picnic in the park, t…
Elizabeth Wurtzel Prozac Nation
Like all of my important memories, it has a potency that has influenced the pocket of time that holds it, so I can remember that particular Saturday afternoon, even though in many ways it was no different from any other. I can remember, for example, what van der Glick was wearing as she stepped out of the elevator, which was a dress covered with clownish polka dots. Rainie would make these heartbreaking stabs at femininity; indeed, she still does. It's not that she doesn't po…
Paul Quarrington The Ravine
The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet rife with suffering and tragedy, the spectacle of a clown civilization. Sustained on a clown diet rich in sugar and fat, we have developed a clown physiognomy. We dress like clowns. We move about a landscape filled with cartoon buildings in clownmobiles, absorbed in clownish activities. We fill our idle…
James Howard Kunstler
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