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Cloddish

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clod  (kld)
n.
1. A lump or chunk, especially of earth or clay.
2. Earth or soil.
3. A dull, stupid person; a dolt.
[Middle English, variant of clot, lump; see clot.]
cloddish adj.
cloddish·ly adv.
cloddish·ness n.
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Adj.1.cloddish - heavy and dull and stupid
doltish
stupid - lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
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The artist's untroubled creative id was particularly vivid in the dozens of discrete objects that populated a wall of small shelves, delicately cloddish sculptures looking like something from the workroom of Franz West's little sister: tiny houses and containers and doll-like protuberances, all made from ad hoc combinations of craft-basket bits and bobs in taffy pinks, baby blues, and creamy yellows, sewn and glued and pinned together, then sugarcoated with glitter and lace.
Andrea Loefke: PH Gallery by Kastner, Jeffrey / Artforum International
Perhaps her approach represents a lame attempt at masculinity, but are audiences really expected to believe this cloddish Orfeo capable of charming the forces of Hades into relinquishing a beauty like Euridice?
'ORFEO' TOO HARSH TO CHARM IN L.A by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
That's why those cloddish, oh-so-boring long-term investors stay diversified, keeping some of their money staked on technology and some on other, less glamorous stuff.
After Some Dicey Days, What's Ahead for Tech Funds? by CURRIER, CHET / Los Angeles Business Journal
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