| The mouse understands that the clownishly inept cat has the freedom to fail over and over again, during the long course of an inglorious lifetime, while he himself is denied the liberty of a single mistake. |
| Like all adolescent males, they were looking for food and their feet seemed clownishly huge. |
| Bright-red lipstick extended almost clownishly beyond the contours of her lips. |
| Those who know him only as some sort of clownishly macho hipster from the past are missing out on one of the most powerful voices and exciting stage presences in pop music. |
| He gives a performance that is both clownishly broad and impressively nuanced. |
| And penguins they were, Adélie penguins, the little hooded characters who waddle clownishly around their breeding colonies. |
