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oaf

noun as in person who is clumsy, stupid

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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.”

The daughter is married to a bumbling oaf, whom she bullies with real glee.

The venture left Stanford one of the world’s wealthiest men, though not, Harris suggests, by his own merit, especially “given the amount of financial chicanery going on” and his reputation as a “big oaf.”

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

From Salon

“I’ve never tried to avoid that. I’m not some remorseless oaf.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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