oaf

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2022

He is a faux tough guy who lets other people do the fighting for him, a needy brat who never accepts responsibility for his actions, an oaf with no trace of courage, class or chivalry.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2019

Tyrion had rather liked Robert Baratheon, great blustering oaf that he was . . . doubtless in part because his sister loathed him so.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin