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cloddishness

/klod-ish/US // ˈklɒd ɪʃ //

泥沙俱下,笨拙,笨拙的人,笨重

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or resembling a clod or boor; doltish; stolid.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inawkwardness

Examples

  • Raw-boned, angular, cloddish but as strong as a mule, he towered over her in a maddening atmosphere of proprietorship.

  • Two cloddish-looking contadini stood gazing at him, rapt in awe.

  • The historian remarks: "The cloddish, shiftless farmer is perhaps safer in Massachusetts."

  • There is something in a moonlit night at sea that must touch in the most cloddish heart a spring of fancy.

  • It should rather be an expression of his grand unnatural remoteness from the cloddish life.