clerk
noun
a person employed, as in an office, to keep records, file, type, or perform other general office tasks.
clerkish
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a word derived from
clerk.
Example Sentences
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Since Moreau's death in 1897, pale, clerkish Georges Rouault has lived a mystic, melancholy life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even so, Sangster has a unique way with horses, one that combines sporting instinct with clerkish fussiness on a corporate scale.
From Time Magazine Archive
At 35 he is already graying and his narrow face has a mournful, clerkish look.
From Time Magazine Archive
He looked distinctly worried, so did the private secretary—sallow-faced, of a clerkish type, and obviously without social qualifications—who was also wandering round and trying ineffectively to do the right thing.
From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Mrs. Campbell Praed
What, methink ye be clerkish, For ye speak good gibb'rish!
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by William Carew Hazlitt
