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Clerky vs Clerkly - What's the difference?

clerky | clerkly |

As adjectives the difference between clerky and clerkly

is that clerky is clerklike; clerkish while clerkly is of clerks; befitting a clerk.

As an adverb clerkly is

in a scholarly manner.

clerky

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • clerklike; clerkish
  • * Rudyard Kipling, Wireless
    • Returning, he took from his desk Christie's New Commercial Plants and the old Culpepper that I had given him, opened and laid them side by side with a clerky air, all trace of passion gone from his face, read first in one and then in the other, and paused with pen behind his ear.

    clerkly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of clerks; befitting a clerk.
    • the clerkly life

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) In a scholarly manner.
    • (Shakespeare)