Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Clownishness; boorishness; doltishness; clumsiness; ungainliness.
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- noun The quality of being
cloddish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There was something floppy and puppylike about him — a certain heavy cloddishness in his feet — that suggested he would one day be a very large and imposing dog; but Frank would wait forever for the poise that must attend imposing size in order for the animal to be imposing.
The Hotel New Hampshire Irving, John, 1942- 1981
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When we call a thing earthy we impute cloddishness; by 'watery' we imply insipidness; 'airy' is for something trivial.
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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So hoping for aliens to rescue us from our cloddishness, or hoping to find a new habitable world before our time runs out, or hoping to find answers in SETI, are all just foolish wastes of time and energy.
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So hoping for aliens to rescue us from our cloddishness, or hoping to find a new habitable world before our time runs out, or hoping to find answers in SETI, are all just foolish wastes of time and energy.
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So hoping for aliens to rescue us from our cloddishness, or hoping to find a new habitable world before our time runs out, or hoping to find answers in SETI, are all just foolish wastes of time and energy.
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So hoping for aliens to rescue us from our cloddishness, or hoping to find a new habitable world before our time runs out, or hoping to find answers in SETI, are all just foolish wastes of time and energy.
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So hoping for aliens to rescue us from our cloddishness, or hoping to find a new habitable world before our time runs out, or hoping to find answers in SETI, are all just foolish wastes of time and energy.
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Everything about the commercial irritates me-from the young man's cloddishness to the regrettable use of the Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out?"
iPod Product Center 2009
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So hoping for aliens to rescue us from our cloddishness, or hoping to find a new habitable world before our time runs out, or hoping to find answers in SETI, are all just foolish wastes of time and energy.
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Tenet’s cooked up story on WMDs, Feith’s complete lack of knowledge on Iraq ground realities, Rumsfeld’s cloddishness and disregarding sound advice from his Generals, Rice’s CYA campaign.
McClellan’s Book Bubble Bursts on the Blogs - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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