Clerky
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Clerky is an adjective meaning clerklike; clerkish.
Meaning
clerklike; clerkish.
Example Sentences
Returning, he took from his desk Christie's New Commercial Plants and the old Culpepper that I had given him, opened and laid them side by side with a clerky air, all trace of passion gone from his face, read first in one and then in the other, and paused with pen behind his ear.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include clerkish, clerklike, clerkly, clergylike, clouterly, semiclerical.
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