What's the difference between loutish and oafish?

Loutish


Definition:

  • (a.) Clownish; rude; awkward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Simon Rush, president of the GMB union’s professional drivers branch, said: “Whatever the reason for this loutish verbal attack on a working person by this politician, it is unacceptable behaviour, not only on the road but in any workplace.
  • (2) In so far as can be gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.
  • (3) "We had these huge, ill-mannered, loutish interruptions, upper-middle-class people who should have known better," he recalled.
  • (4) Promising an immediate inquiry, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, condemned what he called "thuggish, loutish behaviour by criminals" and conceded his officers had failed to plan for violence.
  • (5) Not so, now, for the LSE has been the unfortunate venue for the latest in a long line of recent “lad culture” scandals that have seen many a male student reprimanded for sexist, loutish behaviour.
  • (6) Loutish Tory MPs once heckled the former ship's steward John Prescott with shouts of "Large gin and tonic".
  • (7) Then Sandler boarded the Jennifer Aniston merry-go-round of filmic failure in Just Go With It, wherein he proved himself no better at squiring La Jenn than his loutish predecessor Gerard Butler.
  • (8) Culture is nowhere to be found, except with disgraced alcoholic Doc Tyden (Donald Pleasence), who talks of Socrates as loutish men punch each other in rear of shot.
  • (9) There are no Fantas or Magnums on ice, no sellers of souvenirs, no racks of postcards, no loutish boomboxes, no plastic rubbish, no deckchairs for rent, no jet-skis to annoy me, no windsurfing lessons not to take.
  • (10) The Drudge Report, a powerful news aggregator popular with conservatives, linked to the Yucatan Times article with some commenters hailed the tourists for avenging alleged Mexican loutishness in the US.
  • (11) Yes, he was loutish in what he said and is not fit to be a parliamentary candidate, but I don’t think there was anything malicious or evil about what he was trying to do,” he said.
  • (12) Revelling in loutish displays, he brandished a pistol in the Serbian parliament, threatening to shoot a political opponent.

Oafish


Definition:

  • (a.) Like an oaf; simple.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One Round (Danny Green) is the oafish representative of the British masses.
  • (2) The winger made Jonny Evans seem oafish as he feinted his way past him on the right and then glided 20 yards forward before racing into the box, past Jonas Olsson, and firing into the net despite an attempted block by Craig Dawson.
  • (3) The cast of The Five vacillated between feigned solemnity and jocular NFL pregame oafishness.
  • (4) The striker's first touch was oafish, allowing Sorensen to surge out to smother.
  • (5) Being a chortling oaf not only makes you critically bulletproof – oafish chortling being a perpetual escape pod – it functions as a kind of cloaking device, somehow obscuring the notion that you're a politician at all.
  • (6) Dante, who's already booked, oafishly knees Reus in the chest!
  • (7) It would be a mistake to dismiss Trump as some oafish “man baby” who impulsively blurts out whatever comes into his mind.
  • (8) Carroll may be uncouth as a footballer but he has an ability to make almost any defender look oafish – Roy Hodgson might just consider that a precious trait when he selects his World Cup squad.
  • (9) I couldn’t accept what was going on in the first half.” The players’ response spoke volumes for the malaise at the club – within three minutes of the resumption they were 3-0 down, Ulloa slamming a penalty into the net after Rivière was punished for an oafish challenge on the Leicester defender Marcin Wasilewski.
  • (10) In an oafish article published last week in the Financial Times, Martin Taylor, the chairman of WH Smith, declared that Germany, in cahoots with France, remains one of our principal rivals.

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