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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Watch it, you big oaf !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Only an oaf would remain longer.
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Really, George was a tasteless oaf at times.
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She deserves better than to be upended by a drunken oaf who seems incapable of controlling his social behaviour.
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That big oaf of a stonemason?
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They have also, it must be admitted, sometimes floundered and fumbled like ten-thumbed, hammer-footed, constipated, sexless oafs.
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Under the influence Clift was transformed from an articulate and relaxed friend into a repugnant oaf .
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Unfortunately, facing Mrs Bottomley reduced me from passionate eloquence to an inarticulate oaf , and my opportunity was lost.