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unclerklike

unclerklike adjective: not befitting a clerk.

Adjective

unclerklike (comparative more unclerklike, superlative most unclerklike)

  1. Not befitting a clerk.
    • "I will," he muttered, with another most unclerklike oath, and he took Katty by the hand, and shook it slowly in his own cold, damp grasp as he asked, with the same intense and forbidding look, "Is Mr. Lowe in the house still?"1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which a Certain Songster Treats the Company to a Dolorous Ballad Whereby Mr. Irons Is Somewhat Moved”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume III, London...

Forms of unclerklike

comparativemore unclerklike
superlativemost unclerklike

Origin of unclerklike

From un- + clerklike.

Questions about unclerklike

What does unclerklike mean?
Unclerklike means not befitting a clerk.
What part of speech is unclerklike?
Unclerklike is an adjective.

Words near unclerklike in the dictionary

  1. unclenching
  2. unclergiable
  3. unclergyable
  4. unclerical
  5. unclerically
  6. unclerklike
  7. unclerkly
  8. uncles
  9. uncles-in-law
  10. uncleship
  11. uncleships

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