blockish

The first hardcover edition came out, what, six, seven years ago, the jacket featuring the title (The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov) in blockish paper-cut-out letters, lepidoptery-pinned to a pale blue background.

Gods | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2005

We strolled outside, squinted our eyes at the brilliant sun burning behind blockish brick apartment buildings.

Molecules Joe Deir 2011

At the Queensland Theatre Company, a blockish gray building at the foot of one of the bridges across the swollen Brisbane River, staff said they had cleared equipment from the stage and were preparing to evacuate over the course of the afternoon.

Australian Flood Threatens Brisbane David Fickling 2011

I always felt square and sort of lumpy and blockish next to her, and, since we were so close in age and grew up together, that was my main point of comparison.

Tales from the Back Emma Goldman 2006

The double doors were closed, but they were also, he realized as he neared them, bolted shut with a heavy chain wound through each handle and held fast with a blockish padlock.

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

The double doors were closed, but they were also, he realized as he neared them, bolted shut with a heavy chain wound through each handle and held fast with a blockish padlock.

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

Now it fortuned, that Calandrino (who had but a grosse and blockish memory) had quite forgot the name of the stone, and therefore said.

The Decameron 2004

Thales, seeing us admiring the insolence of the man, declared he was a fellow naturally of a blockish, stupid disposition; for when he was

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Promiscuously and indefatigable to pursue all sorts of pleasures I own to be brutish, and to avoid all with a suitable aversion equally blockish, let the mind then freely enjoy such pleasures as are agreeable to its nature and temper.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Pickaxe, grosse feeding and labour, do quench al sensual and fleshly concupiscence, yea, in such as till and husband the ground, by making them dull, blockish, and (almost) meere senslesse of understanding.

The Decameron 2004