oaf

• I was an oaf, an idiot, a doofus, an amateur, a complete zero, and God only knew how she'd been saddled with the likes of me. —  Asimov'sSF,December2007
• Usually, we only remembered he was on-planet at all because he was a clumsy oaf, and one of us always had to keep him company lest some absentminded misstep leave him drowning in the ooze with nobody to pull him out. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 01 - July 1997
• It must truly gall him to see the prize that he so badly wanted in the hands of an oaf, and to know that he has no chance of wresting it free. —  SCOTT McGOUGH
• Auburn was experiencing a resurgence of long-standing animosity against this meddlesome oaf, and perhaps in an effort to suppress it he proceeded to tell Byron more than he would likely have told an intimate friend who had no particular right to the information. —  AHMM,September2008
• I only know what I have observed Then how do you know about this spell This oaf was asleep when the spell was cast, but I wasn't. —  Castle Roogna

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