dolt

Example Sentences

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Now I can sense more than a few people calling me a dolt.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022

But the finest wigs and tattoos can only take the audience so far in viewing Lee, a man dripping with sleaze, as a short-fused dolt who is honestly and obviously in love with his wife.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2022

Reynolds’s signature shtick — wry smirking — works fine enough in the role of a seeming dolt who comes to realize he’s more than that.

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2021

There’s the thief and his dolt of a sidekick, ironically nicknamed “the Brain”; a newly arrived doctor faced with a daily parade of petty hypochondriacs; and a barber who doubles as a D.I.Y. dentist.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2021

I was scarcely able to believe that we had reached our destination, but the stranger dismounted and snapped, "Don't sit there like a dolt; get down!"

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood