Definition of Clodly

1. in a cloddy manner [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clodly

clockworks
clockworky
clocortolone
clod
clodded
cloddier
cloddiest
clodding
cloddish
cloddishness
cloddishnesses
cloddy
clodhopper
clodhoppers
clodhopping
clodly (current term)
clodpate
clodpated
clodpates
clodpole
clodpoles
clodpolish
clodpoll
clodpolls
clodronate
clodronates
clodronic acid
clods
clofarabine
clofazimine

Literary usage of Clodly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1874)
"This, of all the San Rocco pictures, is the most hastily painted, but it is not, like those we have been passing, clodly painted; it seems to have been ..."

2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1835)
"... but her brother interposed, and hurried her away. As Swaine saw her depart, he sent after her fearful yells of supplication. They shot clodly through ..."

3. The Stones of Venice; Introductory Chapters and Local Indices (printed by John Ruskin (1891)
"This, of all the San Rocco pictures, is the most hastily painted, but it is not, like those we have been passing, clodly painted; it seems to have been ..."

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