How to Use oaf in a Sentence

oaf

noun

• For us straight dudes, however, being big and hairy means getting thought of as an ape—a big, dumb, smelly oaf.
  — Dan Savage, Chicago Reader, 7 Feb. 2018
• The other is Trump himself, an uninformed and undisciplined oaf who likes to shoot from the hip.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 10 Aug. 2017
• Nowhere in Hansen’s pages is the impulsive, autocratic oaf seen by many of Castro’s critics.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2019
• But, regardless of which party wins on Thursday, criticizing the oaf in the White House will continue to be an applause line.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 6 June 2017
• Rob Gronkowski only played eight games, but Kelce—who played all sixteen—averaged more yards per game than New England’s lovable oaf.
  — Clay Skipper, GQ, 7 Sep. 2017
• Yes, main character Skarin is basically a lumbering oaf without a sneaky bone in his body.
  — Chris Kohler, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2008
• Gustavo, dismissed as an oaf, seems no match for Lucia Villanueva (Emily Rios), a crime lord’s daughter.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 July 2017
• Though comic buffoons and yokels are scattered through a number of Shakespeare’s tragedies, Lear’s universe is relentlessly bleak, and the Fool, despite his jingling, is neither oaf nor jester.
  — Cynthia Ozick, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• No one who touched the ball in the opposing penalty area as often as Kane was as good at not losing possession, showing that a target man doesn’t have to be a lumbering oaf whose primary skill is measuring in at over 6-foot-3.
  — Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 18 June 2018
• Sung Kang-ho as The Weird, in particular, delivers a tremendous performance, equal parts clown, trickster, and something more, sliding between oaf and mystery man with unsettling ease.
  — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 1 July 2017
• In Fitzpatrick, Doyle has created an extraordinarily creepy antagonist: a bully who plays dumb but always gets under the hero’s skin, a clumsy oaf who nevertheless can disappear like a cat into the darkness.
  — J. Robert Lennon, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024