oaf

Example Sentences

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But neither should you behave like an oaf.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2023

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

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2022

Naturally, this oaf is no match for the tough-girl cool of Fox, who emerges from each bloody tussle and snowy brawl with her makeup perfectly intact: such is her legend.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2021

Nor does Amy, even though she is mad about the selfish oaf.

From Slate • May 17, 2019

And the word racist, to them, conjures, if not a tobacco-spitting oaf, then something just as fantastic—an ore, troll, or gorgon.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates