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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

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

At first he doesn't accept her apology but, being the immature oaf that he is, Chris gets back at her by using her as human torpedo to destroy their gooey, disgusting alien target.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2022

“Professor Snape sent them into the Forbidden Forest, to do some work for the oaf, Hagrid.”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

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

BoJack, an ass of a horse, is right in the wheelhouse of Mr. Arnett, who has played self-centered oafs like Gob Bluth in “Arrested Development.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2016

"Because these child kings and drunken oafs can call other strong men, with other swords."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin