oafish

• “I fear that Dubya will get his testosterone stirred up again and make some kind of oafish, I'm a tough-ass from Crawford remark, like his moronic "Bring it On" dalliance with idiocy.”

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• “We additionally encounter Launce, a singular of Shakspere's commencement oafish ridiculous characters.”

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• “I saw that from here on, he would become rather an oafish prop, so to speak, in the last act of something like that, without any great stature.”

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• “I've seen it a hundred times: an oafish fan shamed out of F-bombs by kids sitting with their parents.”

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• “But with the acclaimed actor hiding himself so well in each character — and with other roles so different from the Chance family's lovably oafish patriarch — he's actually pretty hard to pin down.”

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• “Which is why Obama's paean to Lawrence Summers on Stewart show rang so clangorously, as he praised the oafish Harvard professor for having performed a heckuva job, a phrase that one might have thought would have been permanently exiled from the presidential lexicon.”

  The Huffington Post: Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Tactical Press Conference

• “For Heffernan, it's an excellent return to form as the oafish jerk he perfected with Farva in "Super Troopers.”

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• “If you expect American men to be fat, lazy and oafish, then they will move to meet those standards as well.”

  To Be An American: Part Three - Cultural Icons | Heretical Ideas Magazine

• “But we can, and should, go back even further, to the fons et origo of this sort of thing: the coterie of literary wingnuts who have insisted that Shakespeare was simply too oafish, ill-educated and country-bred to write the plays attributed to him.”

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• “He has a ragtag, bumbling group of followers which include an oafish pigman, a faux wizard, and a pagan, nymphomaniac female warrior (steaming performance by India de Beaufort).”

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