One character’s descent into madness seems rushed and over the top, and another character’s oafishness is exaggerated at times to the point of annoyance. From Wordnik.com. [Seth Pfefferle’s Stickman « Skulls in the Stars] Reference
This country has descended into the depths of "oafishness" at best and total lunacy at worst. From Wordnik.com. [Dodd released from hospital after surgery] Reference
Take heart, and don't let Snuffles's needling or Deej's oafishness upset you. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Update] Reference
But Barber self-deprecatingly quotes that assessment, and manages throughout to make his oafishness more endearing than obnoxious. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass of Fashion] Reference
It's a whole new realm of Internet oafishness to be doing what some people have decided to spend their time doing over this past week. From Wordnik.com. [Sometimes the news is fortunate] Reference
Congress, in its collective ham-fisted oafishness, dictated after 9/11 that the government place restrictions on access to spacecraft tracking information. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-02-01] Reference
Each of them came to me to complain about the other, to say that he/she was messing up fragile negotiations, butting in where he/she did not belong, and offending with his/her oafishness and insensitivity all sorts of important people. From Wordnik.com. [EVENING’S EMPIRE] Reference
Most oafishness knocks off elitism points and vice versa. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
Kyle Albertson handled the thankless part of Kissinger with professional oafishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News] Reference
Burns' character is hilarious in his oafishness, and he nearly steals his own movie. From Wordnik.com. [Ed Burns, "Nice Guy Johnny" and a New Way of Distributing Films - Monte Burke - Flow - Forbes] Reference
I think Peter's oafishness has never coalesced into anything approaching a coherent character. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
I am not counting those who consider me a "putz" (81), as this denotes oafishness rather than arrogance. From Wordnik.com. [The Suburban Ecstasies] Reference
Rightwing pols depend on the ignorance &/or utter stupidity & oafishness of their hayseed rube yokel audiences. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Danny McBride's martial arts instructor boasted his aim "to build a more peaceable world," but his oafishness got in the way. From Wordnik.com. [New York Press] Reference
"A film of thunderous oafishness," wrote Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times, with critics around the globe unanimously damning Showgirls as a failure doomed to die in infamy. From Wordnik.com. [PegasusNews.com stories] Reference
Not even Guy Ritchie, in all of his potato-headed oafishness, would dare to consumate a relationship in somewhere as profoundly bleak and misery-soaked and flea-ridden as Chatham. From Wordnik.com. [Hecklerspray] Reference
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