Unclerklike

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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?""

Example

More examples

""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?""

Etymology

From un- + clerklike.

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