different between clownish vs unskillful
clownish
English
Etymology
From clown +? -ish.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kla?n??/
Adjective
clownish (comparative more clownish, superlative most clownish)
- Resembling or characteristic of a circus clown; comical, ridiculous.
- 1998, Bryan Senn, Drums of Terror: Voodoo in the Cinema
- Even worse, the zombies' clownish makeup, with a stark white base and black shoe polish around the eyes, looks amateurish.
- 2014, Jacob Steinberg, "Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian, 9 March 2014:
- Once again, City's defending was clownish. James McArthur drove into the area on the left and pulled a low cross towards the far post, where the horribly timid Gaël Clichy allowed Perch to bundle the ball past Costel Pantilimon.
- 2005, Laura Barton, The Guardian, 14 May 2005:
- Indeed, when in close quarters to Rooney, it must prove almost irresistible to stick a plastic moustache and silly clownish shoes on the potato-headed fool.
- 1998, Bryan Senn, Drums of Terror: Voodoo in the Cinema
- (now rare) Pertaining to peasants; rustic.
- (now rare) Uncultured, boorish; rough, coarse.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- Large were his limbes, and terrible his looke, / And in his clownish hand a sharp bore speare he shooke.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume I, Chapter 4:
- "He is very plain, undoubtedly—remarkably plain:—but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without air. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility."
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
Derived terms
- clownishness
Translations
clownish From the web:
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unskillful
English
Alternative forms
- unskilful
Etymology
un- +? skillful
Adjective
unskillful (comparative more unskillful, superlative most unskillful)
- Not skillful.
Related terms
- unskilled
- unskillfully
Translations
unskillful From the web:
- what unskillful meaning
- what does skillful mean
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