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Going the opposite way, Justin Theroux, as the Jeff Bezos-like billionaire with the sensibility of an oaf, is awful from the start and his schtick gets more grating the more he presses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Before landing on the small ape of “The Legend of Ochi,” Saxon first considered a giant oaf and then something closer to the slumbering beast of Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025

But neither should you behave like an oaf.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2023

At first he doesn't accept her apology but, being the immature oaf that he is, Chris gets back at her by using her as human torpedo to destroy their gooey, disgusting alien target.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2022

And the word racist, to them, conjures, if not a tobacco-spitting oaf, then something just as fantastic—an ore, troll, or gorgon.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

What they were doing with these oafs, I do not know, but it was astonishing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

She scrutinized the vicissitudes of the New York City Ballet as well as the feats of the ballroom-dancing pros and celebrity oafs of the popular TV series, “Dancing With the Stars.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2024

They’re confirmed oafs who, like their father, love saying the quiet part out loud, and who make themselves into fools jockeying for his attention.

From The Verge ● Aug. 14, 2018

But it sounds like when you leave the house, you’re beset by multiple well-meaning oafs who think pawing at you and bellowing in your ear is the best way to offer their assistance.

From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2016

They got to the stables, mounted the horses, and were away before the two oafs had untangled themselves.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli