i Register
In some senses, clownish is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a circus clown; comical, ridiculous.
Even worse, the zombies' clownish makeup, with a stark white base and black shoe polish around the eyes, looks amateurish.
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.
Pertaining to peasants; rustic.
Uncultured, boorish; rough, coarse.
Large were his limbes, and terrible his looke, / And in his clownish hand a sharp bore speare he shooke.
"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."