clownish definizione dal dizionario inglese italiano

Definizione monolingua

clownish

clownish (comparative more clownish, superlative most clownish)

1. Of or pertaining to the actions a clown, often in terms of inappropriate or boorish behaviour.

   1815 ""He is very plain, undoubtedly--remarkably plain:--but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without air. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility."" — Jane Austen, Emma, Volume I, Chapter 4.

Definizione dizionario clownish

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Of or pertaining to the actions a clown, often in terms of inappropriate or boorish behaviour.