oaf

The chemistry between this oaf and the astute Elinor is nonexistent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

But neither should you behave like an oaf.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2023

I just have the sense that life is just this clumsy oaf.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022

Nor does Amy, even though she is mad about the selfish oaf.

From Slate ● May 17, 2019

“Hope he’s not as big an oaf as his father,” grumbled Hadel.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

It’s tempting to ascribe the IOC’s decision-making process here to rank incompetence, and to imagine the IOC as a group of hapless oafs who bumbled their way into the “Olympic Athletes from Russia” moniker.

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2018

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