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oaf
Part of Speech: noun
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Examples of usage:
- Here he found that some " illiterate oaf," as he characterized the person responsible, had put in upside down upon the shelves the standard works he had hastily amassed. - "Poor Relations", Compton Mackenzie.
- That afternoon I was upstairs, looking at the reflection of myself in the tall glass, wondering miserably why I seemed to be such an oaf. - "Romance", Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer.
- Mrs. Boniface Newt, to whom he made this oration, had been taught by her husband that Mr. Van Boozenberg was an oaf, but an oaf whose noise was to be listened to with the utmost patience and respect. - "Trumps", George William Curtis.