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Cloddish

adjective
1.
Heavy and dull and stupid.  Synonym: doltish.






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"Cloddish" Quotes from Famous Books



... which she mysteriously hides herself from mortals. But this was all. The clods of earth, which we so constantly belabored and turned over and over, were never etherealized into thought. Our thoughts, on the contrary, were fast becoming cloddish. Our labor symbolized nothing, and left us mentally sluggish in the dusk of the evening. Intellectual activity is incompatible with any large amount of bodily exercise. The yeoman and the scholar—the ...
— The Blithedale Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... Behind him lurched Half-past Full, and stumbled into the room. His boot caught, and he pitched, but saved himself and stood swaying, heavily looking at Drake. The hair curled dense over his bull head, his mustache was spread with his grin, the light of cloddish humor and destruction burned in his big eye. The clay had buried the spirit ...
— The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories • Owen Wister



Words linked to "Cloddish" :   doltish, stupid



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