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cloddish
adjective as in boorish
adjective as in churlish
Strongest matches
adjective as in crude
adjective as in doltish
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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