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English
Etymology
From un- + clerklike.
Adjective
unclerklike (comparative more unclerklike, superlative most unclerklike)
- Not befitting a clerk.
1863, J 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:"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?"