(n.) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor.
(n.) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
(n.) The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.
(v. i.) To act as a clown; -- with it.
Example Sentences:
(1) He lost no time climbing on the back of the clown car of the demagogue who, with ghoulishly oedipal glee, he calls “Daddy”.
(2) If Kyrgios cares about his career – and sometimes he is so blase about his success, wealth and celebrity he professes to hate tennis – the hip young dude from Canberra who smirks when he should be smiling, who plainly is struggling with fame, needs to understand he is not the only clown in town.
(3) Another McChrystal aide reportedly called the White House national security adviser, Jim Jones, a clown who was "stuck in 1985".
(4) Doctor Brown In 2011, the American Phil Burgers (AKA bearded silent comic Doctor Brown) performed the funniest comedy show on the fringe : a sexy, stoner clown show that delighted, intrigued and molested its audience.
(5) He was also a profoundly unostentatious and reserved man, and although he undertook a great variety of roles, all were informed at heart with the wisdom of the sad clown.
(6) St Basil's was like a clown's nose on the face of the evil empire.
(7) "We've come to know each other ..." At school, Stanhope says he was too dark to be considered the class clown and, after a spell as a "fraud telemarketer" ("borderline legal stuff, trying to scam people basically"), he decided to give stand-up comedy a go at an open-mic in Las Vegas.
(8) The funniest sketch I’ve ever seen Roger Mann and Kevin Eldon’s “Australian clowns” dialogue in Simon Munnery’s live show Cluub Zarathustra, from 25 years ago, in which the duo described the clowning process in painful detail in stoned Australian beach-bum voices.
(9) As well as political statements and corny clown jokes, Madonna lamented the fact she was “very single” and had not had sex for some time.
(10) When the famous Rivels clowns recently came to a leading Berlin music-hall with their act, which used to include a parody of Charlie Chaplin, the clown who played the mock Charlie abandoned his little moustache and bowler and appeared in another disguise.
(11) Handshakes and hugs all round, from that clown Blatter and the German chancellor Angela Merkel.
(12) The legal challenges have been issued by a group of residents called the Preston New Road Action Group and Gayzer Frackman, a professional clown from Lytham St Annes who changed his name by deed poll from Geza Tarjanyi.
(13) The cupula of the supraorbital neuromast in the lateral line canal of the clown knifefish contains vertical columns.
(14) Afterwards, the group is photographed together, and Branson plays the clown, throwing his hands up in the air and whipping out that megawatt smile.
(15) This is a story about how trolls took the wheel of the clown car of modern politics.
(16) The latter is an intriguing vision , a trojan horse of massive deregulation of some of everything – a clown balloon horse, with rainbow polka dots and a jackass smile.
(17) Again, he was taken as a clown and neither arrested nor disciplined.
(18) "Dressing for pleasure" and "fun fashion" get a bad rap, especially for women in their middle age, as it is generally assumed that this is a euphemism for women dressing like clowns and not realising that, at their age (huff, huff), they should be wearing beige cashmere.
(19) Even as he handed out wads of petrodollars to impoverished developing countries, their leaders mocked him behind his back for being a buffoon and a clown.
(20) Further collections of sketches followed – Send Up the Clowns (2011) and House of Fun (2012).
Oversized
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The damage threshold during aortic valvuloplasty was determined in 12 normal swine subjected to inflation of oversized dual balloons.
(2) Porous polyethylene was thus better incorporated into the soft tissues than silicone rubber as long as the overlying soft tissues were not stressed by an oversized implant or inadequate soft tissue coverage.
(3) The parietal, squamosal, and exoccipital bones, and the quadrate cartilage were displaced when otic capsule material was absent or oversized.
(4) A literature review aimed at completeness, a study of the hitherto largest case material (24 cases), and a comparative analysis of the bleeding and normal gastric arteries gave the following results: (1) the walls of the pathologic arteries are of normal structure; (2) as submucous arteries, they are of normal diameter; (3) they are attached to the mucosa by virtue of Wanke's musculoelastic mantle; (4) at the level of the muscularis mucosae, they are definitely oversized; (5) in the area of the linkage of the artery to the mucosa, a vulnerable mucosal spot is created; (6) the artery is accompanied by a vein of similar caliber; and (7) perforation of the vein takes place before that of the artery.
(5) Analysis of variance suggests that the use of a 0.5-mm oversized transplant, as opposed to a 0- to 0.3-mm oversized transplant, contributed to the production of high myopia when tissue from donors younger than 2 years was used (P = 0.009).
(6) Oversized grafts should be avoided because of resultant turbulent flow and the tendency of thrombosis.
(7) Two nurses ready a yellow and black machine that looks like a drill press with an oversized button where the chuck would be.
(8) In 38 per cent of cases the reason for surgery was an oversized calf and in 84 per cent the operation was performed on the farm of origin.
(9) Still: “We had an oversight model that could have worked” – meaning the Congressional and judicial oversight systems for the NSA – “But the overseers weren’t interested in oversight – the Senate and House intelligence committees championed surveillance.
(10) HTC's phablet - an oversized smartphone, or small tablet - resembles the slim profile and curved metal back design of the well-received 5in HTC One Android smartphone , but features a larger 5.9in full HD screen that makes watching movies and sharing content with friends easier.
(11) I meet Olsen in London, somewhere east of Dingwalls (a venue she's due to play later) and in the neighbourhood of the Observer 's offices.. She's wearing dark clothes and oversized shades, pale‑faced underneath.
(12) Yet the relationship between the overseers and the overseen is not adversarial.
(13) With a tone at points mournful and angry, Udall, who lost his re-election last month, said “the CIA has lied to its overseers and the public”, and blasted the White House for not holding anyone “to account”.
(14) The authors' results demonstrate that within an oversized IVC, the BNF creates less flow disturbance and is less occlusive with clot capture than biiliac filters.
(15) The easy, cynical view is that this is just people with too much money and oversized appetites buying into hype.
(16) Late on Monday the new finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, sent a six-page list of proposed economic reforms to Brussels which held to some of Tsipras’s election campaign pledges, but largely diluted or abandoned them to win the support of the other 18 governments in the eurozone, and of the troika of bailout overseers from the European commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) .
(17) Oversized balloons with a ratio greater than 1.3 (n = 35) caused a high (37%) incidence of dissection, with three severely compromised arterial lumens.
(18) These oversized disks had incorporated 3H-leucine and extended along the margin of the outer or inner segment.
(19) Kaepernick and Reid dropped to one knee while a naval officer sang The Star-Spangled Banner and dozens of military members unfurled an oversize flag at the Chargers’ Qualcomm stadium.
(20) Sixty-eight of the 88 lenses had PAS which were strongly correlated with the lens being oversized (P less than .001).