cloddish

How to use cloddish in a sentence

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

  Desert Dust | Edwin L. Sabin

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

  A Girl Among the Anarchists | Isabel Meredith

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

  A Truthful Woman in Southern California | Kate Sanborn

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

  The Shoes of Fortune | Neil Munro

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

  Crome Yellow | Aldous Huxley