cloddish

Example Sentences

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Less attractively, it’s also a bit cloddish and tame, falling into that unsatisfying category of children’s entertainment that seems to be styled in accordance with the tastes of old people.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

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

I was about to say that Simeone’s cloddish rampage was very un-hockey-like, but one hockey coach did stage a charge on the opponent’s locker room this season.

From New York Times • May 25, 2014

He picked up Fujiko’s bamboo flute, turned it over twice in his hands—small hands for such a thick, cloddish man—then set it on the dining room table.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson