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cloddish

[ klod-ish ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or resembling a clod or boor; doltish; stolid.


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Other Words From

  • cloddish·ly adverb
  • cloddish·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cloddish1

First recorded in 1835–45; clod + -ish 1
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Example Sentences

Raw-boned, angular, cloddish but as strong as a mule, he towered over her in a maddening atmosphere of proprietorship.

Two cloddish-looking contadini stood gazing at him, rapt in awe.

The historian remarks: "The cloddish, shiftless farmer is perhaps safer in Massachusetts."

There is something in a moonlit night at sea that must touch in the most cloddish heart a spring of fancy.

It should rather be an expression of his grand unnatural remoteness from the cloddish life.

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