clownishly
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clownishly (comparative more clownishly, superlative most clownishly)
- In a clownish, undignified, or foolish manner; absurdly, ridiculously.
- 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter III, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 115:
- The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day
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