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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



... why did he let the young idiot get his goat that way? Didn't he have enough self-control just to ignore Symes and his oafish insults? ...
— Pagan Passions • Gordon Randall Garrett


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