How To Use Oafish In A Sentence
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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.
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He couldn't help but admire how much more of a fat, greedy, oafish pig his uncle had become in his absence.
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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
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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.
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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
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He called me a stupid, oafish, little girl in front of EVERYONE the night I met him.
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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.
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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.
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We additionally encounter Launce, a singular of Shakspere's commencement oafish ridiculous characters.
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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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her stupid oafish husband
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And her smallness fills the room and makes everything else in it seem oafish and awkward in comparison, including me.
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For kids who grew up in the '90s, metal music means whiny frat boys half-rapping over oafish power chord dross.
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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
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Anyone who is actually involved will be well aware of his oafish and entitled behavior.
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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
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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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Instead of a mischievously lovable old coot, we get this barely Irish, youngish, oafish dude.
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The hippos nearest to us watched with a kind of uncomprehending belligerence such as we had become used to at the airports in Zaire, but most of them simply lay there with their heads up on their neighbours 'rumps wearing huge grins of oafish contentment.
Last Chance to See
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I must also say that like Matt of No-sword, from whom I got the link, I prefer the resonant older names like sexagesimo-quarto to the oafish new-style sixty-fourmo and its fellows.
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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.
Garret Dillahunt: The Man From Hope
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He's a nasty, stupid, oafish and worryingly devious main character and put up against Homer, it's inevitable which one the public would go for.
