cloddish
Example Sentences
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There’s the cloddish desperation of the strategy, summed up by its designer.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2020
Not unlike its title character, the movie can be cloddish and clumsy, but it is also a thing of wily cleverness and lithe, surprising grace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2016
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
