clerky
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clerky (comparative more clerky, superlative most clerky)
- clerklike; clerkish
- 1902, Rudyard Kipling, “Wireless”, in Scribner's:
- 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.