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Definition of Cloddishness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloddishness
Literary usage of Cloddishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
"The insensibility supposed is inconsistent with the supposed sensibility, and
would manifest a cloddishness of temperament that would prove the poetic ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1895)
"... hospitable, kindly, with little of the cloddishness of their brother of the
lowlands; the herds and labourers, big men, clad in the “shadow'd livery of ..."
3. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1872)
"... in profound ignorance of their ideas, whatever they may have observed of their
customs. It has brought upon their heads more charges of cloddishness, ..."
4. My Winter on the Nile by Charles Dudley Warner (1880)
"It is probably the speediest waj> this conscription, by which the dull cloddishness
of Egypt can be broken up. I suppose that in time we shall discover ..."
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