Thesaurus results for LUMMOX

lummox

noun

ˈlə-məks

Definition of lummox

as in klutz

a clumsy, awkward person that player is a lummox in the outfield, with three errors just this week

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Recent Examples of lummox There’s married mom of six Angela (Alexandra Melrose), who needs a break from the double-wide trailer and her lummox spouse. — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025 Max is still living happily in New York City with his owner, Katie (Ellie Kemper), and his lummox of a best friend Duke (Eric Stonestreet). — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 6 June 2019 Over nearly two centuries, the herbivore has been imagined as a spike-nosed lummox, inappropriate kangaroo and now, at last, a stiff-tailed, mostly quadrupedal animal. — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2017 An unemployed lummox of a man, McCausland spends most of his time getting drunk with his portly mother, and for years, the two have been embroiled in a July 4 fireworks competition with the Massimo family, their wealthy neighbors across the lake. — Kira Bindrim, Newsweek, 5 July 2015

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Noun

Like a klutz on an obstacle course, a Tesla Robotaxi with no safety driver seemingly panicked after taking a wrong turn and plowed through a row of bollards, those springy traffic barriers that you are not supposed to run down.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 19 Aug. 2026
Like Lerner’s previous protagonists, the narrator is something of an intellectual klutz, at once Chekhov and Chaplin.

— Giles Harvey, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026

Definition of klutz

Noun

Carrie raves to Seema about her creative connection with Duncan, and during another writing session, Duncan helps Carrie with her faulty printer and gawks at her closet full of designer dresses and shoes.

— Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 31 July 2025
The badaud, by contrast, is always liable to form a group or crowd, either for a mass gawk or some communal response.

— Julian Barnes, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022

Definition of gawk

Noun

The real estate sector is taking its lumps as Treasury yields surge, but Mizuho sees plenty of potential for two dividend-paying stocks in that corner of the market.

— Darla Mercado, CFP®, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026
Through two weeks of the Dallas Cowboys’ season, there are some lumps that the team’s defense has taken that have been reminiscent of the last two porous efforts on that side of the ball.

— Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of lump

Noun

But road dubs count for more when everything gets added up at season’s end.

— David Aldridge, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Amazon‘s Prime Video is promising to make English-language dubs look more natural by using AI to sync up the way the actors’ mouths move on screen.

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of dub

Noun

Star-studded, and then some, the upcoming show boasts giant of stage and screen John Lithgow as Hogwarts Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, Golden Globe winner Janet McTeer as stern but wise Professor Minerva McGonagall, and comedy stalwart Nick Frost as gentle oaf Rubeus Hagrid.

— Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
And in the 1939 film, the Wizard is a kind of bumbling oaf who has stumbled onto the levers of power (almost literally).

— Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 21 Nov. 2025

Definition of oaf

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That self-deprecating description opens Tony, writer-director Matt Johnson’s movie about the one crazy summer that changed a thoughtless young lout’s life; for good measure, the quote does double duty as the tagline on the film’s poster.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026
That isn’t enough to humble our black-eyed lout, but spending a few months as a dishwasher at The Flagship in exchange for getting to sleep on the head chef’s hammock soon will.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 July 2026

Definition of lout

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