dolt

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

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 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

The central protagonist of the royalty portion of this upstairs-downstairs comedy is the type of clueless, privileged dolt we've seen a thousand times before.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2020

Guess she was right after all: I am a dolt.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2019

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

But naturally the actors are not portraying them in the guise of the movie’s endearing dolts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2025

“Gutenberg! The Musical!,” a comic meta-musical about two talentless dolts pitching a show about the father of the printing press, wraps up its limited Broadway run on Jan. 28.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

The wives’ decision to journey to Lourdes is met with great resistance by their husbands, all of whom are portrayed as clueless dolts.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

Well, these dolts are almost certainly going to get their wish: it’s hard to imagine that the SEC continues with just eight conference games once Texas and Oklahoma enter the fold.

From Fox News ● Aug. 12, 2021

Never before had I seen my family as such half-wits, such hayseeds, such dolts.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly