Frank, oafishly, bent down to the bear, tugging its fur again.

At least Wadley's oafishly inappropriate advances had finally spurred her to action.

The enemy forces had swept this area, stupidly and oafishly, and wouldn't be back soon.

Young men shouted at each other, oafishly.

The image of him barging his way oafishly through heaven got a laugh out of everyone.

I continued oafishly, "But these seances have been investigated by scientists with the highest academic qualifications."

Plumped up the pillows and flopped back onto them, hands behind his head, grinning oafishly at the ceiling.

He stared oafishly round it at the cast-off underwear and open cupboards, the scuffed walls.

How oafishly ad hominem of you to imply that the people running the Ars site are pedophiles.

He felt for an instant as though a steeple bell had gonged through his skull, and found himself sitting oafishly in a puddle.

John Stephens proved particularly fine, vocally and theatrically, as the oafishly endearing Bottom.

By now she was wearing a little blue apron, and he oafishly admitted that he "sure would like to give those apron strings a pull."

She grinned oafishly at her reflection in the bathroom mirror, dignity gone, dapping her hands in celebration.

Skinpaw laughed oafishly.

The people gathered about him, calling him by name, and staring and laughing oafishly when he inquired the road to Calyz.

"Bang-bang, you're dead," Goliath said oafishly.

Mr. Jefferies staggered oafishly as he tried to partner Deborah Bull, who was cast as his mistress.

Though the men here are often described in an animal way (hairy and potent, oafishly predatory), still there is little disgust or recoil in Oates's writing.

He seemed to see men in winged helmets lounging around Frost's, the late-night delicatessen, or peering oafishly into the windows of Sturgis, the estate agent.

One teacher asked whether the play's pantomimed comic opening, in which a scullery maid and bailiff clumped oafishly in wooden shoes around the judge's putrid quarters, was in the original script.

The vessel continued into the shallows: "Spurting oil from top and bottom, Amoco Cadiz lurched oafishly shoreward, trapped inside the rocky maze of the reef line, bonking and nudging."

At her side was Homer Hemingway, a shaven-head mas ter writer whom Gaspard had always written off as a hulking boob, though Heloise had recently developed a whim for repeating his oafishly laconic remarks.

Thousands of U.S. journalists found excuses to spend the week there, playing up the possibilities of political confrontation and violence (China oafishly sent thousands of troops to show everyone who's the boss) before conceding that nothing was going to happen.

Their main duties involved directing traffic and/or telling (frequently inebriated) foreign tourists how to stumble back to their hotels, and the only danger they faced was usually that of being blinded by the flashes of foreign cameras held by oafishly pleasant but drunken gwai.

The responsibility for overdoing it belongs to Will Ferrell, the oafishly adroit, shame-immune "Saturday Night Live" comedian who seems poised to enter the million-dollar pop-culture doofus pantheon alongside Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey and SpongeBob SquarePants.