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oafish
Part of speech: AdjectiveStupid.
Usage examples "oafish":- Naturally, like a good mother, she always reproved us for bad manners, or for being unkind to other children, or selfish, or affected, or oafish, or sulky. - "The Adventure of Living", John St. Loe Strachey.
- He was blaming himself bitterly now for his oafish clumsiness in blurting out the news so abruptly. - "The Adventures of Sally", P. G. Wodehouse.
- The elder sister watched them- Alce a little oafish in his Sunday blacks, Ellen wearing her new spring hat with the daisies. - "Joanna Godden", Sheila Kaye-Smith.