Clownlike

In the dining room was "Ola's Dolls," part of a series of brightly colored paintings featuring rag dolls with clownlike faces. ❋ Annys Shin (2010)

One reader, Nick Antonicello of Venice Beach chimes in with the following question, "How does Bill Rosendahl, with his bombastic and clownlike approach to government service, earn more than a U.S. senator or member of Congress?" ❋ Unknown (2009)

January 27, 2008 at 6:41 pm i feelz ur payne. i awmost cwied wen i seed sum clownlike outfitz my mom wud get for me. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There is something very sweet in his clownlike acta beautiful, enthusiastic innocence. ❋ Michelle Karén (2008)

Home-state cartoonists routinely picture Clinton with a puffy, clownlike nose, the result of persistent and debilitating allergies to everything from refined sugar to the yeast in beer. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Lawyers weasel around it, judges fall asleep, and pretty soon you have another dramatic, tragic or more likely clownlike performance in court. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I wore a clownlike combination of bright blue eye shadow and dark red lipstick. ❋ Stephanie D. Walker (2005)

Jean-Pierre frowned deeply at her, his too-crimson mouth looking rather clownlike against his white skin. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2002)

Points were given for each direct shot to the clownlike face, the hat coming in highest at twenty. ❋ STEF ANN HOLM (2001)

Her eyes were washed out by the heavy peacock-blue they had painted on her lids; her cheeks had hectic red circles that looked as clownlike as she had imagined, and her rosy, pouting lips simply did not look as if they belonged on her face. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1995)

Jim mumbled something Cindy couldn't hear, but whatever it was the clownlike grin on the man's face didn't waver. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1993)

At this moment a boy with sandy hair brushed straight back in a manner either statesmanlike or clownlike -- things were too involved to know which -- shuffled in with an armful of yellow paper which he flopped down on the pine table. ❋ Susan Glaspell (1915)

There was a snarling wild-beast growl, the first that ever had come from the clownlike puppy's throat, -- and Bruce flung his unwieldy young body straight for the vivisector's throat. ❋ Albert Payson Terhune (1907)

So absurd were their motions and tumblings and clownlike grimaces, for they had dragged off their masks, that roars of brutal laughter rose from the audience, in which the Asika joined. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)