| 单词 | cloddish |
| 例句 | Its comforts were stuffy and cloddish, the heater, the padded chairs, the bed piled with furs, the rugs, drapes, wrappings, mufflings. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He picked up Fujiko’s bamboo flute, turned it over twice in his hands—small hands for such a thick, cloddish man—then set it on the dining room table. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The braless sex scene in question turns out to be a mini-Mad Men reunion in episode one, with actor Rich Sommer, previously known as Sterling Cooper’s cloddish media booker Harry Crane. Alison Brie: ‘If you’re imagining me from Mad Men, you’re in for shock therapy’ 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z A cloddish barbarian in the presiding officer’s chair. Opinion | Trump’s evangelicals were complicit in the desecration of our democracy 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z They saw themselves as an “axis of adults,” Bolton writes disdainfully, who would steer Trump away from his cloddish foreign policy instincts and campaign promises. Bolton book tells all about Trump — except what makes him tick 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z “Despite her delicate features and voice, Disney expects us to believe that Mulan’s ingenuity and courage were enough to carry her to military success on an equal basis with her cloddish cohorts,” Pence wrote. Mike Pence saw secret propaganda in Disney film 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Not unlike its title character, the movie can be cloddish and clumsy, but it is also a thing of wily cleverness and lithe, surprising grace. Steven Spielberg's 'The BFG' seeks to recapture the heights of 'E.T.' 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z That was before the cloddish, obnoxious SUV took over limousine duties. Cadillac’s Dark Knight Rises: Meet the CT6 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z In his abundant vigor and ebullience and cloddish, mean-spirited good humor, Trump may seem like the opposite of the death wish. Appetite for destruction: White America’s death wish is the source of Trump’s hidden support 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z I was about to say that Simeone’s cloddish rampage was very un-hockey-like, but one hockey coach did stage a charge on the opponent’s locker room this season. Path to Stanley Cup Is More Like a Gantlet 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z But how would it have been with a cloddish unimaginative fellow, whom nature never intended should understand Shakspere? A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z “It’s usually a joke understood to be making fun of a kind of cloddish, dopey guy,” Stein said. Citigroup Axes Ben Stein Speech as Texas Woman Objects to Jokes 2011-04-27T18:39:44Z If here and there the face of a man seemed stolid, cloddish, peasant-like, not so any of the half dozen faces of the women next adjoining him. The Broken Gate A Novel Raw-boned, angular, cloddish but as strong as a mule, he towered over her in a maddening atmosphere of proprietorship. Desert Dust But Rastus Dabb, her sweetheart, was as cloddish and unimaginative as the heavy-uddered cows, with their great fleshy dewlaps, of which he was prouder than he was of anything else in his world. Drolls From Shadowland Be kind to your fellow man; don't show him up as a stupid clod, no matter how cloddish he may be. The Highest Treason The historian remarks: "The cloddish, shiftless farmer is perhaps safer in Massachusetts." A Truthful Woman in Southern California Dull, yellow, heavy, lustreless— With less of radiance than the burnished tress, Crumpled on Beauty's forehead: cloddish, cold, Kneaded together with the common mold! The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems I was—in my cloddish egotism—trying to show her that she was irreverent because she could believe what in my soul I do not, though I dare not admit so much even to myself. The Dawn of a To-morrow Methought it was not a very successful piece of work; for the plow was better sculptured than the man, and the man, tho heavy and cloddish, was more effective than the goddess. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 He began to wonder where Mr. Melton got his boots from, and glanced at his own, which, though made in St. James's Street, seemed to him to have a cloddish air. Coningsby Nor did their faces look anywise rancorous; but at most, only heavy, cloddish, good-natured, and humane. Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life He had always accepted himself as a stupidly hopeless burden in the world, a burden on his friends, useless, cloddish. Bull Hunter Be happy, then," said Achilles Tatius, "since thy vile, cloddish spirit feels suffocation rather than refreshment in gales, which, instead of causing death, might recall the dead themselves to life. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Our thoughts, on the contrary, were fast becoming cloddish. The Blithedale Romance It should rather be an expression of his grand unnatural remoteness from the cloddish life. Crome Yellow She was no longer a cloddish lump of horseflesh, but an individual, a soul; Gregg's hand fell from his gun. The Seventh Man He pointed to the cloddish, heavy-limbed gray which he had ridden in his quest for the superhorse at the Bridewell place. Bull Hunter The hair curled dense over his bull head, his mustache was spread with his grin, the light of cloddish humor and destruction burned in his big eye. The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories That man was the huge, cloddish stranger who had advised him to ride without spurs. Bull Hunter |
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