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What (who) is oafish - definition
Oafish
·adj Like an oaf; simple.
oafish
If you describe someone, especially a man or a boy, as oafish, you disapprove of their behaviour because you think that it is impolite, clumsy, or aggressive.
The bodyguards, as usual, were brave but oafish.
...oafish humour.
= loutish
ADJ [disapproval]
Examples of use of oafish
1. The curator of a Michigan museum that collects Jim Crow memorabilia said the Memin Pinguin caricature is a classic "pickaninny" –– a black child, oafish and with apelike features.
2. More polls» Does it any longer matter that Tony Blair flies off on his freebie holiday today, leaving the oafish John Prescott in charge?
3. President, successor to Washington and Lincoln, offering such a crude and oafish analysis of international politics that it cannot be spelt out in a family newspaper.
4. Should this make oafish men – even the cleverest men are often oafs crow over women and claim that they are superior?
5. "Because," he roared, "I say so!" I still feel bad that I didn‘t say anything, that I did not challenge this jumped–up, oafish, playground bully and remind him who, precisely, was paying his wages – i.e. the unfortunate gentleman to whom he had just spoken as if he were addressing a naughty schoolboy.