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Meanings of oafish in английском

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

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Usage of oafish in английском
1
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
5
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
7
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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