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oafish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective oafish has 1 sense
- oafish(s = adj.all) boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, swinish - ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
THESAURUS
oafish
Boeotian, all thumbs, asinine, awkward, beef-brained, beef-witted, blockish, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bovine, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, chumpish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cowish, crass, cumbersome, dense, doltish, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, fat, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, gross, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, ineducable, inelegant, klutzy, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, opaque, ponderous, sloppy, sottish, stiff, stupid, thick, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unteachable, unwieldy, wrongheaded
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