Instead, you are now a clumsy oaf who is just getting in the way.

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He ought to have written the collector down for an oaf and a bully he had painted enough in his years and forgotten the matter.

NEWYORKER: The Limner

An example of the latter is The Return of Depression Economics by that incomparable MIT economist and op-ed oaf, Paul Krugman (see Digital Rules, Oct. 4).

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It was fuel to the fire of critics who felt Winner was a brash, sexist oaf, but he insisted it was all done with a hefty dose of irony.

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Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) is a feckless oaf with a wide grin, a bong, and four lazy housemates who are too old to be boys but will never, unless fate takes a hand, bother to grow into men.

NEWYORKER: Knocked Up

The idea that the juvenile Anne (as she is played by Portman) could have the vision to maneuver herself into the position of Queen of England is preposterous, and the simplistic portrayal of the King as a petulant oaf detracts from the story.

NEWYORKER: The Other Boleyn Girl