clumsy oaf

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2022

And still Jeff stood there, lost, speechless, helpless, unready, a clumsy oaf, an object of pity.

From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

I was a clumsy oaf and did not know that those things made such a difference.

From Dross by Merriman, Henry Seton

I began to feel conscious, as I often did in her presence, that I was but a clumsy oaf; and, furthermore, suspected that Lucille was watching me over the book she pretended to read.

From Dross by Merriman, Henry Seton

If you don’t know that you have a gentleman on board, please to learn it now, and have the goodness to be off and take that clumsy oaf with you.

From Fitz the Filibuster by Piffard, Harold