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Significados de oafish em inglês

Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.

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Examples for "neanderthal"
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He may play neanderthal he-men in movies like XXX and The Fast and the Furious.
The Irish Times
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Some in Spain agreed while others saw that as indicative of England's neanderthal approach to football.
The Guardian
3
A neanderthal A blue whale A headless ex-member of the French royal family You got… Dreadful.
The Guardian
4
Neither a Methodist nor a Neanderthal, to the best of my knowledge.
Water, stone, heart
5
It is next to impossible that the Neanderthal evolved directly into us.
The Science of Battlestar Galactica
1
He was a craftsman and an artist, lost in this boorish place.
The Cloister and the Hearth
2
Bonnie bristled at what she considered a boorish display of male insolence.
The witch of agnesi
3
Behaviour that had become boorish, is now the template for all teams.
Radio NZ
4
One said something to the other, and both laughed with boorish malice.
The Debtor: A Novel
5
Finally she opened her eyes to remind herself of the boorish truth.
The Hellbound Heart
1
The young men who composed it were without exception vulgar and loutish.
The Making Of A Novelist / An Experiment In Autobiography
2
A loutish-looking young man brought up the rear with the third donkey.
Robert Falconer
3
Only after I was struck myself by a very large loutish bully.
For the love of mike
4
Threatened and hectored in his own house by a loutish, daubing plough-boy!
Under the Skylights
5
That he succeeded was the appropriate riposte to such mean-spirited and loutish behaviour.
The Irish Times
1
And yet here they could carouse, and lose themselves in swinish indulgence!
My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
2
I, however, say unto you: To the swine all things become swinish!
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
3
She could love him, polluted and swinish in the low sinks of womankind.
Villa Elsa / A Story of German Family Life
4
Tribes that have swinish traits were destroyers there and will be destroyers here.
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ...
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But there was nothing swinish about Mrs. Clifford of Budleigh Salterton.
He Knew He Was Right
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Were neandertal and modern human cranial differences produced by natural selection or genetic drift?
Wired
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This suggests that Neandertals went extinct without contributing mtDNA to modern humans.
Pubmed
3
Others, however, were troubled that the Neandertal and modern features weren't more blended.
A short history of nearly everything
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Many people refused to accept that the Neandertal bones were ancient at all.
A short history of nearly everything
5
DNA was extracted from the Neandertal-type specimen found in 1856 in western Germany.
Pubmed
Uso de oafish em inglês
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One effort made fun of George W. Bush as a swaggering, oafish Texan.
Wired
2
The striker's first touch was oafish, allowing Sorensen to surge out to smother.
The Guardian
3
Didn't he have enough self-control just to ignore Symes and his oafish insults?
Pagan Passions
4
These oafish bots are easy pickings for automated culling services like TwitBlock or Safego.
Wired
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I felt oafish and awkward, as Jan Lubber Fiend might have done before the King.
The Red Axe
6
Donna seemed odd, slightly oafish, but I liked her.
The Girls
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The upside, however, had been the ease-eventhe enjoyment-withwhich she had rejected my oafish advances.
Act of will
8
Rooney's a raging bull in ballet shoes but plays the oafish dunderhead, who cannot help himself.
The Irish Times
9
Everyone gawked at everyone else in oafish surprise.
Catch-22
10
For once, the oafish General Sextus had been of some use, insufferable fool though he was.
The Last Gladiatrix
11
How slight changes in accent or posture make a man seem oafish, or sly, or silly.
The Name of the Wind
12
He was blaming himself bitterly now for his oafish clumsiness in blurting out the news so abruptly.
The Adventures of Sally
13
While it's not as polished as an iPod, it's certainly more smartly assembled than the oafish Zune.
Wired
14
Men might have been oafish enough to encourage it, but we're not foolish enough to follow it.
The Guardian
15
Billy-Joe's mouth split into an oafish grin.
The Naked God
16
He stood there, feeling oafish, searching for something to say to prolong the conversation but thinking of nothing.
Tough customer: a novel
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