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Mookish

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of a mook; foolish; bumbling.

    "He drops the phrase my vision a lot, although he hasn't quite defined it beyond wanting to be huge. But despite this and his more than slightly mookish image, Durst is extremely down-home friendly (he was raised in the deep South) and obsessed with pleasing his fans, even if it means playing the clown."

Etymology

From mook (“a disagreeable or incompetent person”) + -ish.

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