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Recent Examples of lummoxThere’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 Fraser was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s: a sweetly handsome, blue-eyed lummox whose starring roles established him as a perpetual naif.—Ty Burr, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022 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
Leslie played along, pretending to be a klutz who liked being harshed by a pre-school kid.
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Noor Hassan,
Rolling Stone,
21 June 2025
Gender-flipping a few genre tropes — like showing the guy as the klutz and having the girl chase him down to proclaim her love — no longer passes for subversive.
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.
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Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
31 July 2025
Here, the blurring is visual: Sometimes Leonard floats into the past looking like Gere, who wears the character without a shred of self-protection as the lens gawks at his raw skin.
Women may also be less likely to feel a distinct lump during a breast self-exam, which can delay detection.
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Faye Chiu,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025
These include things like oats, coconut glycerin, and peanut butter in the lumps of coal biscuits, oats, peanut butter and bacon in the bac’n nutty biscuits, and chickpeas, tapioca flour and apples in the brushy sticks.
And, in the Japanese dub, the pairs’ voice actors Kikunosuke Toya and Reina Ueda do a fantastic job, emphasizing Denji and Reze’s immaturity and hesitation in this burgeoning relationship.
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Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
22 Oct. 2025
Earlier this year, Sister Nancy teamed up with iconic dub music producer Mad Professor for her newest album, Armageddon.
The Irish independence-supporting Fenians, represented primarily by hotheaded oaf Paddy (Seamus O’Hara) and his more strategically minded sister Ellen (Niamh McCormack), loathe the family’s conservative unionist policies.
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Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
The pope, played by Samora la Perdida, is a mincing oaf who bickers with Galas about the value of translating Wagner.
The drunken louts who mocked and obscenely jeered the European Ryder Cup contenders at last weekend’s event at Bethpage Black golf course on Long Island would have loved it.
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Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
4 Oct. 2025
There’s at least one major shoe that could drop — why devote an entire episode to the Gemstone origin story if that gold Bible isn’t going to pay off somehow? — but The Righteous Gemstones loves these grotesque, dysfunctional louts.
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