Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not clubable; unsocial.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
unclubbable .
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Examples
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And, to be perfectly frank, had the writer been a Centurion of that period, and had the name of Edgar Allan Poe come up for election, he might have been one of the first to drop a black pill in the box, loudly acclaiming the genius, but deploring the impossible and unclubable personality.
Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909
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It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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It is for the conve - nience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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It is for the conve - nience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town.
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Mr. Croker says 'J.hnson had already invented unclubable for Sir J. Hawkins,' and refers to a note by Dr. Burney
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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The Knight having refused to pay his portion of the reckoning for supper, because he usually eat no supper at home, Johnson observed, 'Sir John, Sir, is a very unclubable man.'
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Johnson called him a “very unclubable man,” and may perhaps have intended him in the quaint description: “I really believe him to be an honest man at the bottom; though, to be sure, he is rather penurious, and he is somewhat mean; and it must be owned he has some degree of brutality, and is not without a tendency to savageness that cannot well be defended.”
Samuel Johnson Leslie, Stephen 1878
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