lummox

Example Sentences

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Fraser was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s: a sweetly handsome, blue-eyed lummox whose starring roles established him as a perpetual naif.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022

In it, William H. Macy played Jerry Lundegaard, a watery-eyed lummox who wears a mask of Minnesota nice.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 23, 2014

In the script that Mr. Smith delivered, Lois Griffin, the wife of the titular “Family Guy” lummox, Peter Griffin, agrees to be a surrogate mother for a college friend who cannot conceive.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2010

Professor Adam could hardly feel encouraged or complimented by your article, nor do we double up in excruciating joy to learn that we are musically a lummox.

From Time Magazine Archive

Them Muggles are coming, yeh see, with their flashing blues and they won’t ’preciate a big lummox like me, would they?

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling