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Going the opposite way, Justin Theroux, as the Jeff Bezos-like billionaire with the sensibility of an oaf, is awful from the start and his schtick gets more grating the more he presses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Before landing on the small ape of “The Legend of Ochi,” Saxon first considered a giant oaf and then something closer to the slumbering beast of Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025

The story that emerged was one of Bankman-Fried not as an oaf who made mistakes but as a mastermind who manipulated a whole scheme to defraud lots of people out of lots of money.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2024

But neither should you behave like an oaf.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2023

It sounded like a sweet memory, but Grandmother told it in a bitter tone, as if she knew, even then, that Frank would turn into a big lumbering oaf.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

What they were doing with these oafs, I do not know, but it was astonishing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

She scrutinized the vicissitudes of the New York City Ballet as well as the feats of the ballroom-dancing pros and celebrity oafs of the popular TV series, “Dancing With the Stars.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2024

They’re confirmed oafs who, like their father, love saying the quiet part out loud, and who make themselves into fools jockeying for his attention.

From The Verge ● Aug. 14, 2018

It’s tempting to ascribe the IOC’s decision-making process here to rank incompetence, and to imagine the IOC as a group of hapless oafs who bumbled their way into the “Olympic Athletes from Russia” moniker.

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2018

They got to the stables, mounted the horses, and were away before the two oafs had untangled themselves.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli