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Example sentences for: clown

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It is hard to foresee a future with a person whose philosophy is akin to that of a cryptofascist clown.
Jerry Lewis--speaking of megalomania--tried something similar in the '70s, with a film about a clown who leads a group of laughing tots into the death chamber.
With relative stillness this week from the White House, the Hill, Kenneth Starr's office, and the world of international diplomacy (excepting Ireland, unfortunately), the commentariat must clown about to keep the crowd's attention.
Even omitting some of the best-selling novel's more scandalous episodes (such as the future first lady jumping into bed with the young narrator), the picture cheerfully out-leers, out-winks, and out-nudges the book by the notorious Anonymous, a k a Joe Klein, transforming the Clinton campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination into a bumptious clown show and the voters into gullible dummies.
On the contrary, he hams up his resemblance to a clown and wheezes for laughs (and, presumably, a paycheck).