clerkish

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Even so, Sangster has a unique way with horses, one that combines sporting instinct with clerkish fussiness on a corporate scale.

From Time Magazine Archive

At 35 he is already graying and his narrow face has a mournful, clerkish look.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since Moreau's death in 1897, pale, clerkish Georges Rouault has lived a mystic, melancholy life.

From Time Magazine Archive

What, methink ye be clerkish, For ye speak good gibb'rish!

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Now I ask you, Dwindle," Jones said to his clerkish aide, "where, in this worldful of specialists, am I going to find someone with a well-rounded education?

From Master of None by Goble, Neil