clerkly

Example Sentences

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And yet we are all in it together; the peasantification of clerkdom goes hand in hand with the replacement of drudge work by machines or by knowledge work – clerkly work.

From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2019

I hadn’t realised how deeply the ancient sense of proprietorship by the powerful over the depiction of love was embedded in literary, that is clerkly, English.

From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2019

The young clerks made jokes about him to the best of their clerkly wit, and told before his face all 35 sorts of stories of their own invention about him.

From SAT Tests

So did he also help invent what later became a modernist stereotype: the passive, clerkly man who must find ways of passing time while waiting for the end.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then came year upon year of neglect, of clerkly procrastination, and of half-concessions.

From The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time by Skelton, Oscar Douglas