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Every new area demands new snark from the oafish Zeus, who complains about needing to get back into shape, and that the story took too long to get to the title screen.
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He looked like an oafish clod, even viewed objectively, and Forrester was making no efforts in that direction.
PAGAN PASSIONSGORDON RANDALL GARRETT
He was blaming himself bitterly now for his oafish clumsiness in blurting out the news so abruptly.
THE ADVENTURES OF SALLYP. G. WODEHOUSE
Here and there troopers were driving before their spears oafish peasants who had lingered too long.
LIFE ON A MEDIAEVAL BARONYWILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS
The elder sister watched them—Alce a little oafish in his Sunday blacks, Ellen wearing her new spring hat with the daisies.
JOANNA GODDENSHEILA KAYE-SMITH
Didn't he have enough self-control just to ignore Symes and his oafish insults?
PAGAN PASSIONSGORDON RANDALL GARRETT
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WORDS RELATED TO OAFISH

  • awkward
  • bumbling
  • clumsy
  • crude
  • graceless
  • green
  • halting
  • ham-handed
  • heavy-handed
  • ignorant
  • ill-bred
  • ill-mannered
  • inelegant
  • inept
  • insensitive
  • lacking
  • maladroit
  • oafish
  • uncouth
  • uncultured
  • unhappy
  • unpolished
  • wooden
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