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Synonyms for cloddish
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : klod-ish |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈklɒd ɪʃ |
Top 10 synonyms for cloddish Other synonyms for the word cloddish
- awkward
- backward
- bad-mannered
- barbaric
- barnyard
- base
- bearish
- blockheaded
- blockish
- blunt
- boneheaded
- brainless
- brusque
- bungling
- cantankerous
- churlish
- cloddish
- clodhopping
- clownish
- clumsy
- coarse
- countrified
- crabbed
- crude
- crusty
- curt
- cussed
- dense
- dimwitted
- dirty
- discourteous
- doltish
- dour
- dumb
- earthy
- empty-headed
- filthy
- foul
- grody
- gross
- grouchy
- gruff
- half-witted
- harsh
- ignorant
- ill-bred
- ill-mannered
- ill-tempered
- impolite
- indelicate
- inelegant
- insensible
- inurbane
- loggerheaded
- loud
- loud-mouthed
- loutish
- lowbred
- mean
- miserly
- morose
- oafish
- obtuse
- ornery
- out-of-line
- out-of-order
- provincial
- raunchy
- rough
- rude
- rustic
- simple
- simpleminded
- smutty
- snippy
- surly
- swinish
- tacky
- tactless
- tasteless
- thickheaded
- touchy
- ugly
- uncivil
- uncivilized
- uncouth
- uncultured
- uneducated
- unenlightened
- ungainly
- ungracious
- unintelligent
- unmannerly
- unneighborly
- unpoised
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unskillful
- unsociable
- vulgar
Définition of cloddish
Origin :- 1844, from clod (n.) + -ish. Related: Clodishly; clodishness.
- As in loutish : adj boorish
- As in boorish : adj crude, awkward
- As in doltish : adj stupid
- As in churlish : adj crude, boorish
- As in crude : adj vulgar, unpolished in manner
- But how would it have been with a cloddish unimaginative fellow, whom nature never intended should understand Shakspere?
- Extract from : « A Logic Of Facts » by George Jacob Holyoake
- She was no longer a cloddish lump of horseflesh, but an individual, a soul; Gregg's hand fell from his gun.
- Extract from : « The Seventh Man » by Max Brand
- There is something in a moonlit night at sea that must touch in the most cloddish heart a spring of fancy.
- Extract from : « The Shoes of Fortune » by Neil Munro
- Raw-boned, angular, cloddish but as strong as a mule, he towered over her in a maddening atmosphere of proprietorship.
- Extract from : « Desert Dust » by Edwin L. Sabin
- The historian remarks: "The cloddish, shiftless farmer is perhaps safer in Massachusetts."
- Extract from : « A Truthful Woman in Southern California » by Kate Sanborn
- It should rather be an expression of his grand unnatural remoteness from the cloddish life.
- Extract from : « Crome Yellow » by Aldous Huxley
Antonyms for cloddish
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