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Meanings of clubbable in английском

Inclined to club together.

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Examples for "clubable"
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Can you fancy anything less clubable than a set of men like this?
Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
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Boswell, however, was, as his proposer said, a thoroughly "clubable" man, and once a member, his good humour secured his popularity.
Samuel Johnson
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I presume that two species of animals do not consider one another companionable, or clubable, unless their behaviour and their persons are reciprocally agreeable.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
Usage of clubbable in английском
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We must, reluctantly, celebrate the efforts of the not particularly clubbable Jeffrey Katzenberg.
The Irish Times
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The lithographs also convey a palpable sense of a clubbable generation.
The Guardian
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Few compare him with clubbable anecdotalists such as Peter Ustinov or David Niven.
The Irish Times
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Another quite funny word is clubbable, used to describe someone.
The Guardian
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A clubbable fellow with decent manners, but lacking the edge required in a changing world.
The Sense of an Ending
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And while he's not clubbable, he's not prickly either.
Reuters
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I suppose I am not, as Johnson said, a "clubbable" man.
What I Remember, Volume 2
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He fulfils Johnson's test of a good fellow: he is "a clubbable man."
Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough
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A very clubbable sort, with a harmless manner, that's the only way I can put it.
The sealed letter
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Spock is the more self-important, less clubbable Lennon.
The Irish Times
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Bradman was not a clubbable man, but as a player he has had no real equal or successor.
The Irish Times
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As Jack stepped back into the corridor, Natalie said, "I didn't have you as the clubbable type."
The clouds beneath the sun
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He's a large-framed, confidence-radiating man with a light English accent-anearlier generation might have called him "clubbable."
Wired
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The title is appropriate: this is history with the emphasis on story, clubbable rather than scholarly but not overly so.
The Guardian
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Hester admits he is not the most clubbable of folks and smart and successful though he is, does not get everything right.
The Guardian
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Is this a confirmation, I wonder, of the theory entertained by Mr. Emerson and other philosophers, that woman is not a 'clubbable' animal?
France and the Republic / A Record of Things Seen and Learned in...
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