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

Dawson cited the case of William James Sidis, the ex-child prodigy who sued the New Yorker for rediscovering him in his clerkly obscurity with ', "Where Are They Now?" piece.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sub-sheriff, who with infinite clerkly care, and much sub-shrieval experience, has made out the list, opens wide his disturbed ears, and begins to feel somewhat uncomfortable.

From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Trollope, Anthony