dolt

How to use dolt in a sentence

He cursed himself inwardly for a fool and a dolt—the more pitiable because he accounted himself cunning above others.

I've employed here in Paris a dolt of a lawyer, to whom I give twenty francs every time he opens an eye, and he is always asleep.

So obvious a one that only the veriest dolt could be deceived by it.

Sir George, that angel, who deserved the first monarch in the universe, to be cast off by an undiscerning dolt!

This man Le Caille will fight bravely, but he is a sorry dolt to have the conduct of brave men.

They were busy as bees and I felt a lazy dolt to be lying there twiddling my thumbs.

But that dolt had not a word to say for himself, but was as dumb as a beetle in that matter.

And yet, in spite of the killing pace and the stony track, who but the sluggard or the dolt can hold aloof from the course?

Every body not a dolt admits conscience to be a good thing, though a thing every body cannot boast of possessing.

He was a simple-minded, good-natured dolt and not above earning an honest dollar by smuggling in tobacco for the convicts.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985