Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of a clod; earthy; hence, earthly; base; low.
- Clownish; boorish; doltish; uncouth; ungainly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Like a
clod , a person who is foolish, stupid orparochial . - adjective Of or pertaining to lumpy soil.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective heavy and dull and stupid
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Examples
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Edgar spares us the spectacle of a make-believe Lamour, it's studded with other vignettes and dubious representations of historical figures: a charm-free Ginger Rogers, a blank-slate Charles Lindbergh, a cloddish Robert F. Kennedy and an appallingly crude approximation of Richard Nixon.
'J. Edgar': Hoover's Life, in a Dramatic Vacuum Joe Morgenstern 2011
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An overwhelming majority of my friends have dating horror stories, filled with bad manners and cloddish moments.
Diana Bianchini: Upsize Love Diana Bianchini 2012
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Sometimes her balancing is cloddish (as deliciously cheesy as it is, her snap 'n b spin on Foreigner's "I Want To Know What Love Is" feels like a forced union of Old Mariah and New Mariah), and sometimes it's acrobatic.
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An overwhelming majority of my friends have dating horror stories, filled with bad manners and cloddish moments.
Diana Bianchini: Upsize Love Diana Bianchini 2012
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An overwhelming majority of my friends have dating horror stories, filled with bad manners and cloddish moments.
Diana Bianchini: Upsize Love Diana Bianchini 2012
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Sometimes her balancing is cloddish (as deliciously cheesy as it is, her snap 'n b spin on Foreigner's "I Want To Know What Love Is" feels like a forced union of Old Mariah and New Mariah), and sometimes it's acrobatic.
fourfour: 2009
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David Berkowitz, in contrast, went right for the red devil, not just unpredictable but purely mad, a quiet, cloddish man wandering the night streets like a monster.
Grand Fury 2010
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In any event, the doors swing to nearly perpendicular to the body, making it possible to alight gracefully on the tall, upright chairs, rather than execute anything so low-born and cloddish as "sitting."
Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car20% Dan Neil 2010
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In any event, the doors swing to nearly perpendicular to the body, making it possible to alight gracefully on the tall, upright chairs, rather than execute anything so low-born and cloddish as "sitting."
Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car Dan Neil 2010
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The lumbering "ships of the desert" are not as cloddish as they seem?
Dubai Camel Milk Producers Hope To Export 'Camelicious' Brand (PHOTOS) 2010
bammerburn commented on the word cloddish
"American Sign Language displays a grammatical economy that English doesn't have: with a twist of the wrist or an extra revolution of the arm (for varying the spatial signal gives SL much of its grammar), a verb can be inflected to convey a nuanced spectrum of meanings that in english requires CLODDISH circumlocution." - Talking Hands by Margalit Fox
November 17, 2008