clerky

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adjective

clerklike; clerkish

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Meanings

adjectiveclerky (comparative more clerky, superlative most clerky)

comparative more clerky · superlative most clerky

  1. clerklike; clerkish

    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.

    1902, Rudyard Kipling, “Wireless”, in Scribner's

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
clerkly

Origin

From clerk + -y.

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APA

clerky. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clerky

MLA

“clerky.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clerky. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clerky,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clerky.

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