oafish

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He won fame as the oafish son-in-law Michael "Meathead" Stivic on groundbreaking 1970s sitcom "All in the Family," before transitioning to directing.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

It is, on one level, a crime thriller built from familiar Scorsesean elements: demanding father figures and feckless heirs, treacherous husbands and neglected wives, oafish goons and ruthless assassins, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023

Yet he savvily navigated the U.K.’s political crises, resigning from Johnson’s cabinet as the oafish PM’s approval plunged—then running to succeed his old boss as the Conservative Party leader.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2022

But even before her beef with a comedian arguably best known for playing oafish characters in 1990s gross-out films, much of Mussolini’s life story sounded like the result of a game of Mad Libs.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2019

We too have uniforms, though they are more oafish than dignified—ill-fitting and in an overloud combination of kelly-green pants and a blinding sunflower-yellow polo shirt.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich