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

Onion and an oafish abolitionist named Cook, who were dispatched to Harpers Ferry in advance, recruit a handful of locals to the cause, including several slaves of the prominent resident Col.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2020

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

How slight changes in accent or posture make a man seem oafish, or sly, or silly.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss