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cloddish /ˈklɒdɪʃ /adjectiveFoolish, awkward, or clumsy: they stood there looking stiff and cloddish...- Dumb, cloddish things are announced grandly, as though they were meaningful observations about the human condition.
- These cloddish white appropriations of hip-hop, drum ‘n’ bass and dancehall are dis-spiritingly, missing-the-point funkless and morosely male.
- We know what you're thinking and we thought the same thing at first - holsters that trumpet themselves as ‘one-size-fits-all’ are sure to be cloddish compromises.
Derivatives cloddishly adverb ...- The beamed dining room, for example, is pleasant and proper, neither cloddishly rustic or oppressively smart.
- The creature then proceeds to rear its ugly head in a few dimly lighted and cloddishly edited murder scenes.
- This is all cloddishly written, though explicit in the extreme.
cloddishness noun ...- But the transparency and cloddishness of such a sudden lurch insulted a large segment of the population.
- It was a horrible bit of thuggery, to be sure, but the sheer cloddishness of the crime soon overwhelmed the outrage.
- Alpha, the resident caveman, is played by Charlie Russo with the lumbering cloddishness popularly associated with prehistoric males.
Rhymes oddish |