cloddish

Example Sentences

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Mitch’s cloddish rejection of her is all the more devastating after all that she has courageously bared to him.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2025

There’s the cloddish desperation of the strategy, summed up by its designer.

From Slate • Aug. 24, 2020

That was before the cloddish, obnoxious SUV took over limousine duties.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2016

In Gallipoli, Connor meets another cloddish British officer and forms a manly friendship with a wise Turkish army officer.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2015

Its comforts were stuffy and cloddish, the heater, the padded chairs, the bed piled with furs, the rugs, drapes, wrappings, mufflings.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin