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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

The story that emerged was one of Bankman-Fried not as an oaf who made mistakes but as a mastermind who manipulated a whole scheme to defraud lots of people out of lots of money.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2024

But neither should you behave like an oaf.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2023

A detached description of his physical features would have made him sound like an ugly, misshapen oaf: pockmarked face, decayed teeth, oversized eye sockets, massive nose, heavy in the hips, gargantuan hands and feet.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

"Because these child kings and drunken oafs can call other strong men, with other swords."

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