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  • adverb in an oafish manner

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Examples

  • We're not sure why Jay Elect asked Diddy to contribute to this fascinatingly ranty Biggie Smalls tribute, but as expected, Diddy spends his cameo flogging Cîroc ( "A bottle of Cîroc will turn a private jet to Soul Plane"?) and generally behaving oafishly.

    Singles file: Pill, Kele, My Morning Jacket 2010

  • People look up as the van bumps oafishly over the curb.

    Grand Fury 2010

  • We're not sure why Jay Elect asked Diddy to contribute to this fascinatingly ranty Biggie Smalls tribute, but as expected, Diddy spends his cameo flogging Cîroc ( "A bottle of Cîroc will turn a private jet to Soul Plane"?) and generally behaving oafishly.

    Singles File 2010

  • Just because Obama has been known to surrender his hips to the sultry sway of the calypso beat is no reason to be quizzing him so oafishly on the subject.

    When White America Wants Answers, Tim Russert Coughs Up the Questions: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • Most ads have lumped men into one of two groups — the soft, caring type known as “metrosexuals,” who are comfortable with facial peels and pink shirts, or the stereotypical “retrosexuals,” who remain oafishly addicted to beer and sports.

    The Confusing Role of Men | Impact Lab 2005

  • There's no blood in this lifeless dud, and the ridiculous re-creation of Bush as, well, as Rudy Giuliani, is so oafishly stylized that the president himself should dismiss the film as a ploy by the Democrats to make him look stupid.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2003

  • Photographs of me oafishly sitting on a couch watching TV, staring blankly at walls thinking about how things aren't going my way.

    Oh oh what I want to know... Where does the time go? grassbrace 2002

  • It was one of the first beautiful spring days on the Columbia University campus, one of those glorious days when Columbia guys are known to gather on the steps of Low Memorial Library and act like guys – you know, shooting the breeze, catching rays, pausing occasionally to admire, perhaps a bit oafishly, shapely young things bounding across the quad in their recently uncloseted spring dresses and tank tops.

    Harvard's Endowed but Columbia's Got the Girls! 2001

  • It was one of the first beautiful spring days on the Columbia University campus, one of those glorious days when Columbia guys are known to gather on the steps of Low Memorial Library and act like guys – you know, shooting the breeze, catching rays, pausing occasionally to admire, perhaps a bit oafishly, shapely young things bounding across the quad in their recently uncloseted spring dresses and tank tops.

    Harvard's Endowed but Columbia's Got the Girls! 2001

  • It was one of the first beautiful spring days on the Columbia University campus, one of those glorious days when Columbia guys are known to gather on the steps of Low Memorial Library and act like guys – you know, shooting the breeze, catching rays, pausing occasionally to admire, perhaps a bit oafishly, shapely young things bounding across the quad in their recently uncloseted spring dresses and tank tops.

    Harvard's Endowed but Columbia's Got the Girls! 2001

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