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Oafish

adjective
1.
Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.  Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, swinish.  "The loutish manners of a bully" , "Her stupid oafish husband" , "Aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"





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"Oafish" Quotes from Famous Books



... her hand and her elbow on the table, turning thus to look long and intently at me. I felt oafish and awkward, as Jan Lubber Fiend might have done before the King. Many things I might have wished to say and do with that slender figure and lissome waist so near me. But I knew not how to begin. Yet ...
— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett


Words linked to "Oafish" :   neandertal, loutish, unrefined


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