clownishness

noun

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as in boorishness

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as in buffoonery

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  1. buffoonery
  2. flippancy
  3. insouciance
  4. indelicacy
  5. vulgarity
  6. crudity
Noun
  • Famously, Tommy Lee Jones could not sanction Jim Carrey’s buffoonery on Batman Forever.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
  • But conservatism ought not to be equated with populist buffoonery and mendacity.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of buffoonery
Noun
  • Gone are the days of treating the vast majority of our skin with unwarranted flippancy.
    Allure, Allure, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Almodovar’s flippancy here is his tribute to the relentless of his women.
    IndieWire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
Definition of flippancy
Noun
  • Although riffing on the archetype of the bad girl is pop tradition, the new insouciance has a distinctly mischievous bent.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 June 2024
  • For her, Gary constructs Ron, a dashing, swaggering fellow with devil-may-care insouciance and a hint of real danger.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
Definition of insouciance
Noun
  • The Trump era is one of indelicacy, profanity, and real—not imagined—misogyny, and its flacks deserve a language that matches up.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 5 June 2018
  • Trump added, seemingly referring to the indelicacy of directly attacking a war hero who is fighting brain cancer.
    Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
Definition of indelicacy
Noun
  • Policy proposals aside, there's been name-calling, vulgarity, and plain old meanness.
    Jon LaPook, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Musk shared several anti-Harris advertisements, including one funded by Musk’s pro-Trump political action committee that refers to the Vice President using misogynistic vulgarities.
    Kali Hays, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of vulgarity
Noun
  • And, while its crudity is certainly purposeful, its sense of purpose can be elusive at times.
    Phillip Maciak, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Although Günther Groissböck cleaned up better than the usual Ochs, his portrayal lacked nothing for crudity.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
Definition of crudity
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