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Meanings of clowning in English
Catalan
pallassada Spanish
bufonada Synonyms
Examples for "comedy"
Examples for "comedy"
1
He is just the great American novelist of the great American comedy.
2
American Hustle, hardly a comedy, actually won the thing two years ago.
3
That's the largest opening of any live-action comedy so far this year.
4
Alice wants people to stop mentioning 'female comedians', especially on comedy lineups.
5
Robinson: He's a character in a comedy who takes things too far.
1
The piccolo, in highest treble, inverts the second melody, in impertinent drollery.
2
The villagers gathered to see the city folks pursue their mad drollery.
3
The admirable drollery in Congreve about Lady Froth's verses on her coachman-
4
This is a little piece of drollery that I thought of myself.
5
Action rhymes, by reason of their practical drollery, never fail to amuse.
1
It makes me feel funny-andit's not a nice kind of funniness either.
2
Now, you don't appear to appreciate the funniness of the situation.
3
Wired: Were you born funny, or did your funniness come from practice and development?
4
After a while Ellis saw the funniness of it too.
5
I didn't inquire as to the nature of that funniness.
Usage of clowning in English
1
You think I won't get heckled when I'm up on stage clowning?'
2
For all his clowning, Count, you might trust him with your life.
3
Do you think we will let you ruin everything by your clowning?
4
Once the clowning begins, Thicke says anything is bound to happen.
5
All their dances are new and full of their characteristic clowning.
6
It's not a clown and has nothing to do with pro clowning. Interesting.
7
Obama at Occidental College, in 1980, clowning and smoking a cigarette
8
They stood together on the practice ground, clowning around like two old friends.
9
With the crowd cheering him on, Harry threw the balls and began clowning.
10
Rather bondage to some Hollywood Gashwiler than clowning in Baird's infamies!
11
He seemed insistent an clowning his way through the meeting.
12
I am too old to go clowning it any longer.
13
Rabbit gets out and stands on the curb and sidesteps, clowning in his freedom.
14
I was just clowning with her and was totally unprepared.
15
He can take kabuki and punk rock, clowning and improv.
16
My first thought was teenagers clowning around in the street, not an unusual occurrence.
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Translations for clowning
Spanish
Portuguese
Clowning through the time
Clowning across language varieties
United States of America
Common