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oafish

[ UK /ˈə‍ʊfɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
    the loutish manners of a bully
    was boorish and insensitive
    her stupid oafish husband
    aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude

How To Use oafish In A Sentence

  • 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?!
  • He couldn't help but admire how much more of a fat, greedy, oafish pig his uncle had become in his absence.
  • Sim was a round-shouldered curiously oafish-looking man, not large but shambling in gait, with a chubby face which was like that of an overgrown baby, and which was capable of good humor. Such, Such Were the Joys
  • When you meet him, he's this very odd combination of literate Renaissance man and oafish uncle who says embarrassing things that you wish your girlfriend hadn't heard.
  • 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
  • He called me a stupid, oafish, little girl in front of EVERYONE the night I met him.
  • To be the object of the oafish affections of such a creature, even when they are honest and profound, cannot be expected to give any genuine joy to a woman of sense and refinement.
  • It's nice to think there was a time when I was small and cute and didn't list disturbingly between being a lanky gawk and an oafish lump.
  • We additionally encounter Launce, a singular of Shakspere's commencement oafish ridiculous characters. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
  • They roared, guffawed, bantered, clinked glasses, made oafish attempts to chat up the waitress, and roared a bit more when one managed to get a fraction bit more of her attention than anyone else.
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