CLODHOPPING Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

clodhopping

adjective

Definition of clodhopping

as in churlish

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Adjective

But the tournament will also be remembered for a classless and churlish Argentina, which forever stained itself with a thuggish performance in the game and an ungracious one afterward.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
If Vance now recognizes his comments as churlish, lacking in charity, and utterly unlikely to persuade voters, much less witness to the sublime truths of the Christian religion, good for him.

— Matthew Walther, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

Definition of churlish

Adjective

People had used rude words on television before, but never in such uncouth tones as Lydon and Jones in a regional ITV interview on 1 December 1976.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 23 Aug. 2026
His gruff mechanic Cooter Davenport is introduced as a hell-raising, uncouth wild man, constantly taunting the authorities and flouting convention.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of uncouth

Adjective

The most surprising appearance of all, however, is that of longtime media executive Jeff Zucker, tearing into a boorish version of himself.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026
The poem tells us of 12 slave girls who sleep with Penelope’s boorish suitors.

— Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 16 July 2026

Definition of boorish

Adjective

The composure of Amélie, and the decidedly wild and clownish manner in which she’s painted, can’t be tamed into order, elegance, or beauty.

— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
In each of those projects, Johnson created a role for himself, typically a clownish dreamer.

— Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of clownish

Adjective

Closer to home, San Francisco’s brassy Stinkfoot Orchestra was launched in 2021.

— George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2026
His theater group the Mechanicals is preparing a stage adaptation of a 1974 French-Canadian film called Once Upon a Time in the East, in which Jimmy will play a brassy singer named Carmen — a clear indication that commercial success is not one of its top priorities.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 20 May 2026

Definition of brassy

Adjective

Meanwhile, the palace has been besieged by loutish suitors, led by the scheming Antinous (Robert Pattinson), all of them vying for the queen’s hand in remarriage and mooching off the absent king’s food and wine.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
And Trump’s domineering, loutish approach to women spoke to its adherents in a way that few, if any, of his rivals could match.

— Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026

Definition of loutish

Adjective

American politics bleed into the margins of their conversations, which are heady and serious, and then brash and provocative.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026
The song was a frenetic evolution of Brooklyn drill—the grimy, bone-rattling subgenre of hip-hop popularized by Bobby Shmurda—and its instrumental by the British producer 808Melo gave it a brash East London bounce.

— Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of brash

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