Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like an oaf; stupid; dull; doltish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like an oaf; simple or clumsy.
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- adjective characteristic of, or resembling an
oaf ;stupid
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
Etymologies
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Examples
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I fear that Dubya will get his testosterone stirred up again and make some kind of oafish, I'm a tough-ass from Crawford remark, like his moronic "Bring it On" dalliance with idiocy.
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I fear that Dubya will get his testosterone stirred up again and make some kind of oafish, I'm a tough-ass from Crawford remark, like his moronic "Bring it On" dalliance with idiocy.
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I fear that Dubya will get his testosterone stirred up again and make some kind of oafish, I'm a tough-ass from Crawford remark, like his moronic "Bring it On" dalliance with idiocy.
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Which is why Obama's paean to Lawrence Summers on Stewart show rang so clangorously, as he praised the oafish Harvard professor for having performed a heckuva job, a phrase that one might have thought would have been permanently exiled from the presidential lexicon.
Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Tactical Press Conference Jacob Heilbrunn 2010
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But with the acclaimed actor hiding himself so well in each character — and with other roles so different from the Chance family's lovably oafish patriarch — he's actually pretty hard to pin down.
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We additionally encounter Launce, a singular of Shakspere's commencement oafish ridiculous characters.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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We additionally encounter Launce, a singular of Shakspere's commencement oafish ridiculous characters.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Which is why Obama's paean to Lawrence Summers on Stewart show rang so clangorously, as he praised the oafish Harvard professor for having performed a heckuva job, a phrase that one might have thought would have been permanently exiled from the presidential lexicon.
Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Tactical Press Conference Jacob Heilbrunn 2010
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I saw that from here on, he would become rather an oafish prop, so to speak, in the last act of something like that, without any great stature.
Boris Karloff 2010
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I've seen it a hundred times: an oafish fan shamed out of F-bombs by kids sitting with their parents.
You Brought a Child to an NFL Game?! Jason Gay 2011
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