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
"A good day to ye, Mistress Cranstoun," said Maisie boldly, and most like a clerkish student.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
