Usually means: Clumsily, awkwardly, without grace or skill.
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  1. oafishly: Merriam-Webster
  2. oafishly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oafishly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. oafishly: Vocabulary.com
  5. oafishly: Wordnik
  6. oafishly: Wiktionary
  7. oafishly: Dictionary.com
  8. oafishly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oafishly: Medical dictionary

(Note: See oaf as well.)

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▸ adverb:  in an oafish manner

Similar:
offishly, fogeyishly, doltishly, aloofly, loutishly, otiosely, owlishly, daftly, ogrishly, buffoonishly, more...

Opposite:
gracefully, elegantly, smoothly

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Similar:
offishly, fogeyishly, doltishly, aloofly, loutishly, otiosely, owlishly, daftly, ogrishly, buffoonishly, more...

Opposite:
gracefully, elegantly, smoothly



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