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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

As I watched for a free stall, an oafish man in pinstripes stepped in front of me, arms outstretched, to block the entrance to the urinals. ❋ Jessie Janowitz (2011)

Mr. Ferrell, known for characters with oafish bluster, has been making some forays into quieter roles, including one in the 2006 feature "Stranger Than Fiction." ❋ John Jurgensen (2011)

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. ❋ Jacob Heilbrunn (2010)

We additionally encounter Launce, a singular of Shakspere's commencement oafish ridiculous characters. ❋ Admin (2009)

For Heffernan, it's an excellent return to form as the oafish jerk he perfected with Farva in "Super Troopers." ❋ Unknown (2009)

If you expect American men to be fat, lazy and oafish, then they will move to meet those standards as well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By publishing this oafish moronic piece of trash, Wonderful Thrilling SF Tales has sullied the honor of the field of science fiction and I hereby cancel my subscription. ❋ Marshallpayne1 (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This week the surprise is that Marvel Studios, which did brilliantly with "Iron Man" and not disastrously with its sequel, has brought forth a concatenation of oafish action sequences and narrative fragments in search of a lighter tone. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

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). ❋ Unknown (2009)

I've seen it a hundred times: an oafish fan shamed out of F-bombs by kids sitting with their parents. ❋ Jason Gay (2011)