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unclerklike en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + clerklike.

Meanings

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?" 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which a Certain Songster Treats the Company to a Dolorous Ballad Whereby Mr. Irons Is Somewhat Moved”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume III, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 172–173:

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