How To Use Clubbable In A Sentence
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It was not that he was unclubbable.
Times, Sunday Times
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a clubbable man
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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 the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
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John Tooley is a part-time senior youth worker, who for two nights a week helps vulnerable youngsters - "the ones who don't join the Scouts or other clubs, not being what you'd call clubbable.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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First, it isn't Hobbes's view that the relation between states is characterised as involving a ‘clubbable’ social life, unless we're punning on ‘club’.
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Those who have worked with him describe him as work-obsessed, ambitious, focused, not particularly clubbable.
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Others in his sector agree he is notoriously unclubbable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unmarried, very short, plump early in life, fat later, overdressed, vain, and watchful, Gibbon was easy to make fun of, and though he belonged to Johnson's Club, he was not a clubbable man.
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For more than two decades, Washington's mainstreamers considered Cheney a rare clubbable Republican—genial, brainy he studied for a Ph.D. in political science, and safe.
Notable & Quotable
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I can't think of any of the current candidates who quite fit the term 'clubbable' (which is perhaps just as well as we need someone who isn't too deep in the club atmopshere).
Politicalbetting.com
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11 - I can think of a few who are 'clubbable' in another sense of the word.
Politicalbetting.com
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In keeping with the colonial elite's clubbable business style, many lending institutions disbursed their funds through patronage networks, with few procedures to monitor clients' accounts.
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He's clearly clubbable - a man you can take anywhere.
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Dr. Johnson calls a thoroughly "clubbable" man, eminently social and familiar; in private interviews and sometimes in public, overflowing with
Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln
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The image he presented was of a bluff, hearty, clubbable chap, but certainly in the early days, that masked what must have been a worrying time of extreme poverty amid the struggle to make his mark as a writer.
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There was also the social contact issue - men in a field made more "clubbable" contacts with each other ... which they then drew on for mutual invitations ... no conscious discrimination, but just the instinctive obviousness of getting hold of x or y or asking them for recommendations, usually also male.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk
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Any aspirant nation found not to be clubbable will find itself out in the cold.
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Thus ‘Do Your Best’ rattles along at a clubbable bpm without sacrificing the percussion and guitar lines that hallmark true Afrobeat.
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They were probably "clubbable" persons, friends with a common interest, each pursuing his own path with perfect freedom, a method which must have enhanced the harmony and efficiency of their meetings.
The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester
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He had to be a gentleman: clubbable, competent, courteous and fair; but he had also to be not so gentlemanly as to be lazy or independent of his master.
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Not being clubbable - indeed, not being admitted into some clubs - she rose above the leadership of the party before taking it.
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He claims to be very shy but as chums such as friends testify, he is perfectly clubbable.
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Union League Club by our most enthusiastic Board member bar none who is the essential "clubbable" character.
Brian Dickie
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There he is surrounded by a salon of interesting people he has collected, including the eminently clubbable journalist, Sneath.
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‘He can't go and open a fête or something because he doesn't know who to be,’ observed his more relaxed, clubbable partner.
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While most of his political generation have settled for the clubbable pleasures of the House of Lords or the corporate boardroom, he is still lean and hungry and in the thick of the action.
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But this belongs to days of the magic circle choosing the most clubbable old boy.
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The interview with them is good, easy reading; you don't feel you know them any better but they seem clubbable enough.
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His predecessor rarely set foot in the White Heather Club, but he is a clubbable kind of chap.
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Freddie is a decent, clubbable type struggling to survive in the emotional deep end.
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Both have an affable, clubbable, somewhat buffoonish image.
Times, Sunday Times
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Boswell's life is unusual in illuminating not only the underworld of the prostitutes among whom he spent an impressive proportion of his time but also the heavy, static society of the Scottish aristocracy and the fierily loquacious world of London's "clubbable" men.
Bozzy's Life
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Lean, trim and a little severe, he has never been the most clubbable of men.
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He adds: ‘I've never been very clubbable and I've always felt too old for my age.’
