oafish

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He won fame as the oafish son-in-law Michael "Meathead" Stivic on groundbreaking 1970s sitcom "All in the Family," before transitioning to directing.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

It is, on one level, a crime thriller built from familiar Scorsesean elements: demanding father figures and feckless heirs, treacherous husbands and neglected wives, oafish goons and ruthless assassins, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023

Although she is buoyant and cheerful, Nikuko is cast as oafish and uncouth, and she is always ultimately the butt of the joke.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022

But even before her beef with a comedian arguably best known for playing oafish characters in 1990s gross-out films, much of Mussolini’s life story sounded like the result of a game of Mad Libs.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2019

We too have uniforms, though they are more oafish than dignified—ill-fitting and in an overloud combination of kelly-green pants and a blinding sunflower-yellow polo shirt.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich