| It's pure clownery, making faces and funny sounds in the hope that somebody will laugh. |
| The clownery and pantaloonery of these pantomimes have clean passed out of my head. |
| As to his father's ignorance and clownery, 'twas as good metall in the oare which wants excoriating and refineing. |
| Classical music, slapstick and clownery of the highest order, poetry and acrobatic thrills and spills? |
| A show of clownery, a mime and music, which, born for the children, ends up charming audiences of all ages. |
| The waggery may be more or less refined, it may run the whole gamut from open clownery to a slightly ironical twinkle, but it is always there. |
