stockish
adjective
like a block of wood; stupid.
stockishly
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a word derived from
stockish.
Example Sentences
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The class of man represented by Vernon Whitford in “The Egoist” says, indeed, the true thing, but he says it stockishly.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson
I stared stockishly at the girl, who passed with an indifferent face.
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
This question rooted him stockishly in a cold and deadly fear as if he had seen a snake before him.
From Lady into Fox by David Garnett
He looked at them, and they stood stockishly there.
From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Gilbert Cannan
