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 Eugene Manlove Rhodes
I was a clumsy oaf and did not know that those things made such a difference.
From Dross by Henry Seton Merriman
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 Henry Seton Merriman
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 Harold Piffard
