dolt

Example Sentences

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“I didn’t want to be the dolt father who keeps getting the family in trouble,” he said.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2022

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

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022

Review: Was Andy Warhol a saint or scourge, genius or dolt?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2021

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

He’d just made Gingersnipes talk about her most painful memory—being called useless—then, like a blundering dolt, he’d made her feel that way all over again.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman