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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

oafish
    adj 1: 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" [syn:
           boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal,
           oafish, swinish]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Oafish \Oaf"ish\, a.
   Like an oaf; simple or clumsy. -- Oaf"ish*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for oafish:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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