clerkish

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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.

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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

"A good day to ye, Mistress Cranstoun," said Maisie boldly, and most like a clerkish student.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)