clerkish
Example Sentences
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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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"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)
He looked distinctly worried, so did the private secretary—sallow-faced, of a clerkish type, and obviously without social qualifications—who was also wandering round and trying ineffectively to do the right thing.
From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Praed, Campbell, Mrs.
