| For example, in American cinema they were caricatured as clownish, desexualised mammies or maids. |
| The way he sped up, as if no one would notice, was a beautifully stupid clownish moment. |
| A passionate leap across a sofa back to reach a beloved becomes a clownish somersault along the entire length of the couch. |
| The cover shows a man in white suit with a ridiculous polka dotted tie, even more absurd spotted socks, and clownish white and black shoes. |
| They try to get the public to dress up in the most clownish clothes possible while paying the fashion industry good money to look like a doofus. |
| I guess to their fellow homeboys this is hilarious and considered de rigueur, but to the rest of the world they seem clownish. |
