oaf

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

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.”

From Washington Post

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.”

From Seattle Times

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

From New York Times