oafish

Example Sentences

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Yet the light charm, mostly offered by Shen as the oafish sidekick, serves as a saving grace amid the shadowy political games.

From New York Times

Onion and an oafish abolitionist named Cook, who were dispatched to Harpers Ferry in advance, recruit a handful of locals to the cause, including several slaves of the prominent resident Col.

From New York Times

Everyone agrees: On first meeting,, Theo may seem“quiet, oafish, socially inept,” but he is a good guy, a person of “substance and deliberation,” as Chris puts it.

From New York Times

These adorable little open-faced sandwiches, built on the likes of a slice of an undersized loaf of rye or a diagonal of good baguette, make larger open-faced sandwiches look out of scale and oafish.

From Seattle Times

Their style of play was seen to be "clumsy and oafish... like that of medieval yeomen".

From BBC