clerkish

That's what he felt like: a guy who's retreated into his clerkish office.

The Vital Importance of the First Scene Lizzie Simon 2011

In that last category, Headquarters Battery had the advantage of a disproportionate number of certified badasses, despite the clerkish character of our duty assignments.

Pacific Light 2010

Michael considered the careful clerkish script and the phrasing — diplomatic formal.

The Ideal Bride Laurens, Stephanie 2004

Inspector Mota collates the details into an incident report, dictated to the clerkish officer, who eventually finishes typing.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

We march up a concrete stairway to the fourth floor, where a clerkish officer sits at a desk behind an antique typewriter in a large room otherwise bare of furniture, waiting to record my statement of victim-hood.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Theo Padnos is a slightly clerkish-looking man of thirty-four, small and pale, whose horn-rimmed glasses and mop of curly, uncombed hair make it easy not to notice the wiry mountain-biker's sinews in his arms and legs.

The Apocalypse of Adolescence 2002

We march up a concrete stairway to the fourth floor, where a clerkish officer sits at a desk behind an antique typewriter in a large room otherwise bare of furniture, waiting to record my statement of victim-hood.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Theo Padnos is a slightly clerkish-looking man of thirty-four, small and pale, whose horn-rimmed glasses and mop of curly, uncombed hair make it easy not to notice the wiry mountain-biker's sinews in his arms and legs.

The Apocalypse of Adolescence 2002

Inspector Mota collates the details into an incident report, dictated to the clerkish officer, who eventually finishes typing.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Harry could see his breath by the clerkish light of green-shaded lamps that hung over a glassed-in office area.

December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002