oafish
Example Sentences
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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
Yet he savvily navigated the U.K.’s political crises, resigning from Johnson’s cabinet as the oafish PM’s approval plunged—then running to succeed his old boss as the Conservative Party leader.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2022
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 ● Nov. 16, 2020
The oafish out-of-step me surfaces, and I cross the thin line we dance.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
