clerkish
Example Sentences
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Even so, Sangster has a unique way with horses, one that combines sporting instinct with clerkish fussiness on a corporate scale.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since Moreau's death in 1897, pale, clerkish Georges Rouault has lived a mystic, melancholy life.
From Time Magazine Archive
At 35 he is already graying and his narrow face has a mournful, clerkish look.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now I ask you, Dwindle," Jones said to his clerkish aide, "where, in this worldful of specialists, am I going to find someone with a well-rounded education?
From Master of None by Neil Goble
"A good day to ye, Mistress Cranstoun," said Maisie boldly, and most like a clerkish student.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
