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

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

“Love distorts things,” the older Joe reflects, looking back with shame on her fixation on the cloddish Jerôme.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2014

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