oafish
clumsy and stupid; unmannered; loutish: He’s not exactly oafish, but he’s no suave sophisticate either.
Origin of oafish
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Other words from oafish
- oaf·ish·ly, adverb
- oaf·ish·ness, noun
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How to use oafish in a sentence
Every new area demands new snark from the oafish Zeus, who complains about needing to get back into shape, and that the story took too long to get to the title screen.
‘Immortals: Fenyx Rising’ is a worthy adventure wavering between cringe and charm | Gene Park | November 30, 2020 | Washington PostThe political mutterings of oafish celebrities are best ignored.
Steven Seagal and the League of Hollywood Halfwits | Michael Moynihan | June 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was an appropriate response: violent oafs should be fired from their university jobs for violent, oafish behavior.
How 1960s Radicals Ended Up Teaching Your Kids | Michael Moynihan | April 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe looked like an oafish clod, even viewed objectively, and Forrester was making no efforts in that direction.
Pagan Passions | Gordon Randall GarrettHe was blaming himself bitterly now for his oafish clumsiness in blurting out the news so abruptly.
The Adventures of Sally | P. G. Wodehouse
Here and there troopers were driving before their spears oafish peasants who had lingered too long.
Life on a Mediaeval Barony | William Stearns DavisThe elder sister watched them—Alce a little oafish in his Sunday blacks, Ellen wearing her new spring hat with the daisies.
Joanna Godden | Sheila Kaye-SmithDidn't he have enough self-control just to ignore Symes and his oafish insults?
Pagan Passions | Gordon Randall Garrett
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