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

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

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

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 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