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clownish
(redirected from clownishly)

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28) Traditionally, the characters in minstrel songs and the playlets performed in the third part of minstrel shows had been southern plantation slaves, decked out in rags and clownishly oversized shoes.
In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, he flips between delightfully clownish and clownishly menacing, so cruel and off-kilter for somebody in a kid’s movie you suspect his Wonka Bars share their secret ingredient with soylent green.
Regarding himself as having "zero natural dancing talent" and no enthusiasm for the "stale and overwrought" images of tango he'd gained from movies and musicals ("cheeks pressed together, roses clenched in teeth and clownishly pained expressions"), Winter only ended up at a milonga (or tango dance hall) after months of solitary mooching in Buenos Aires had left him desperate for physical contact.
 
 
 
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