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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Kira Bindrim,
Newsweek,
5 July 2015
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lummox
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Like Lerner’s previous protagonists, the narrator is something of an intellectual klutz, at once Chekhov and Chaplin.
Noun
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One of the synthetic pyrethroids could also help control the young lubber grasshoppers.
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Unlike other grasshopper species which are winged and agile, the lubber can't fly.
Noun
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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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The badaud, by contrast, is always liable to form a group or crowd, either for a mass gawk or some communal response.
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Pastas, all made in house, are a solid choice too—like the Squid Ink Orecchiette with lump crab.
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Stocklas was retired by the time of his Powerball win, which netted a lump-sum payment of $191 million.
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Noah Lennox and Pete Kember made not one, not two, but five versions of their first album as a duo, 2022’s Reset, among them a full dub rework helmed by Adrian Sherwood and an EP featuring Mexico City’s Mariachi 2000 de Cutberto Pérez.
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Cyrus voiced the English-language dub of the titular character, while Jonas voiced Sōsuke.
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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.
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And in the 1939 film, the Wizard is a kind of bumbling oaf who has stumbled onto the levers of power (almost literally).
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The league’s most popular player has become its biggest lout.
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Suddenly, these two louts are forced to support themselves for the first time.
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“Lummox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lummox. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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