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clownish
1. The clownish recruit was not yet satisfied
2. Odder still, was the clownish shadow that covered all the tracks that led out from the gates of the makeshift caravan, since this was a shadow that spoke:
3. He stepped on clownish fingers
4. Almost she had been touched by his attitude about the curls into believing he really did love her for what she persistently, and vaguely, called herself--a clownish, an incurably facetious love, but still quite genuine
5. the glass while Rich still held his clownish grin
6. attention the manner in which it had been told, which was as unlike the manner of a clownish goatherd as it was like that of a polished city wit; and he observed that the curate had been quite right in saying that the woods bred men of learning
7. One of those who supported it, leaving the burden to his comrades, advanced to meet him, flourishing a forked stick that he had for propping up the stand when resting, and with this he caught a mighty cut Don Quixote made at him that severed it in two; but with the portion that remained in his hand he dealt such a thwack on the shoulder of Don Quixote's sword arm (which the buckler could not protect against the clownish assault) that poor Don Quixote came to the ground in a sad plight
8. She was thin in those days, flat-chested, leggy; she seemed all limbs and neck, bodiless, spidery; thus far she conformed to the fashion, but the hair-cut and the hats of the period, and the blank stare and gape of the period, and the clownish dabs of rouge high on the cheekbones, could not reduce her to type
9. However, since you have begun on the subject yourself, I must tell you that six days ago I too received a clownish anonymous letter
10. "That's the way we are taught to do," he said carelessly, with a clownish grin