The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clerkly \Clerk"ly\, a.
Of or pertaining to a clerk.
--Cranmer.
Clerkly \Clerk"ly\, adv.
In a scholarly manner. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Wiktionary
a. Of clerks; befitting a clerk. adv. (context obsolete English) In a scholarly manner.
Usage examples of "clerkly".
If you are the Socman's brother you are one of the right side, I warrant, for all your clerkly dress.
Catherine's script was clear and clerkly, Tom's was ornate, flowing and hard to read.
He was employed in some clerkly capacity at a wholesale stationer's in City Road.
Together they bore the unconscious man into the office and laid him on the floor, dragging the clerkly one farther in to join him.
She, Igraine herself, had more clerkly skills than Father Columba, and spoke better Latin when she wished.
He enclosed a cover note, explaining in his clerkly style that it was of course only a rough estimate, and that I wasn't beholden to reimburse him penny for penny.
Wilson gazed vaguely out the window, toward a row of lights where his clerk-like secretary of state, Robert Lansing, was, no doubt, busy doing clerkly things, so unlike his predecessor, the Great Commoner, who was incapable of clerkdom or indeed of anything less mundane than Jovian thunderings for peace.