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Meanings of oafish in English
Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.
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Examples for "neanderthal"
Examples for "neanderthal"
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He may play neanderthal he-men in movies like XXX and The Fast and the Furious.
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Some in Spain agreed while others saw that as indicative of England's neanderthal approach to football.
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A neanderthal A blue whale A headless ex-member of the French royal family You got… Dreadful.
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Neither a Methodist nor a Neanderthal, to the best of my knowledge.
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It is next to impossible that the Neanderthal evolved directly into us.
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He was a craftsman and an artist, lost in this boorish place.
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Bonnie bristled at what she considered a boorish display of male insolence.
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Behaviour that had become boorish, is now the template for all teams.
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One said something to the other, and both laughed with boorish malice.
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Finally she opened her eyes to remind herself of the boorish truth.
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The young men who composed it were without exception vulgar and loutish.
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A loutish-looking young man brought up the rear with the third donkey.
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Only after I was struck myself by a very large loutish bully.
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Threatened and hectored in his own house by a loutish, daubing plough-boy!
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That he succeeded was the appropriate riposte to such mean-spirited and loutish behaviour.
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And yet here they could carouse, and lose themselves in swinish indulgence!
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I, however, say unto you: To the swine all things become swinish!
3
She could love him, polluted and swinish in the low sinks of womankind.
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Tribes that have swinish traits were destroyers there and will be destroyers here.
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But there was nothing swinish about Mrs. Clifford of Budleigh Salterton.
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Were neandertal and modern human cranial differences produced by natural selection or genetic drift?
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This suggests that Neandertals went extinct without contributing mtDNA to modern humans.
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Others, however, were troubled that the Neandertal and modern features weren't more blended.
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Many people refused to accept that the Neandertal bones were ancient at all.
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DNA was extracted from the Neandertal-type specimen found in 1856 in western Germany.
Usage of oafish in English
1
One effort made fun of George W. Bush as a swaggering, oafish Texan.
2
The striker's first touch was oafish, allowing Sorensen to surge out to smother.
3
Didn't he have enough self-control just to ignore Symes and his oafish insults?
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These oafish bots are easy pickings for automated culling services like TwitBlock or Safego.
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I felt oafish and awkward, as Jan Lubber Fiend might have done before the King.
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Donna seemed odd, slightly oafish, but I liked her.
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The upside, however, had been the ease-eventhe enjoyment-withwhich she had rejected my oafish advances.
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Rooney's a raging bull in ballet shoes but plays the oafish dunderhead, who cannot help himself.
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Everyone gawked at everyone else in oafish surprise.
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For once, the oafish General Sextus had been of some use, insufferable fool though he was.
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How slight changes in accent or posture make a man seem oafish, or sly, or silly.
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He was blaming himself bitterly now for his oafish clumsiness in blurting out the news so abruptly.
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While it's not as polished as an iPod, it's certainly more smartly assembled than the oafish Zune.
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Men might have been oafish enough to encourage it, but we're not foolish enough to follow it.
15
Billy-Joe's mouth split into an oafish grin.
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He stood there, feeling oafish, searching for something to say to prolong the conversation but thinking of nothing.
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