Thesaurus / doltish

doltish

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You wanted me, my money, everything, and had nothing to give in return except your own doltish self.

They enjoyed the situation, as the commercial traveller could see from their doltish looks.

Is it that doltish Jules, who looks an absolute fool, but may be masking his game!

I looked at his furtive eyes and brutal, doltish face, but he kept them blank as a wall.

She almost touched him, but though his spirit recoiled, the doltish flesh would not be moved.

IDOLATRYJULIAN HAWTHORNE

Such air as these Germans had was a blackguard air of doltish ugliness—dull, gross, incurable.

WARPIERRE LOTI

The common English are doltish; except in the North, where you won't do much with them.

What demon let loose your tongue, you who keep a doltish silence whenever I speak to you?

A START IN LIFEHONORE DE BALZAC

I blushed at my idiocy; the idea of being so doltish and timid with a flower seller!

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