Example Sentences

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Where oafishness is the defining characteristic of a Son, then, wrongheadedness is the central feature of a Nephew.

From The Verge • Aug. 14, 2018

To make matters even worse, for all the talk of his oafishness, Lochte should have known better.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2016

Alerted of the crisis by a cat-sitter manifesting depraved oafishness, he spends money that he does not have to fly home from North Carolina and mount a search.

From Slate • Jan. 4, 2013

Amid scenes of egotism and oafishness, the last qualities a footballer loses, there are variable attempts at cuisine and amusing ribaldry around the table.

From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2010

All the oafishness and surly awkwardness of the half-boy period was gone.

From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher