lummox
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Fraser was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s: a sweetly handsome, blue-eyed lummox whose starring roles established him as a perpetual naif.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
In it, William H. Macy played Jerry Lundegaard, a watery-eyed lummox who wears a mask of Minnesota nice.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 23, 2014
In the script that Mr. Smith delivered, Lois Griffin, the wife of the titular “Family Guy” lummox, Peter Griffin, agrees to be a surrogate mother for a college friend who cannot conceive.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2010
Thirteen years ago Kathryn Elizabeth Smith was an uninhibited 16-year-old lummox of a girl singing and doing the Charleston in Washington, D. C. amateur shows.
From Time Magazine Archive
Them Muggles are coming, yeh see, with their flashing blues and they won’t ’preciate a big lummox like me, would they?
From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
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