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doltish

How to use doltish in a sentence

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

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

IDOLATRYJULIAN HAWTHORNE

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

I verily believe, said the elder, that you would willingly be among those doltish screamers on the shore yonder.

I felt very doltish and unready as I followed him to the drawing-room.

"Thou art growing less doltish and more shrewd every day, Sancho," said Don Quixote.

He soon proved a heavy clog upon the little party, being doltish and taciturn, lazy in the extreme, and a huge feeder.

The St. Aliquis villeins seem doltish and dirty enough, but they are nothing to those existing in Flanders.

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

WARPIERRE LOTI

Feverish irritability, a constant absorption in thought, made Calyste almost doltish.

BEATRIXHONORE DE BALZAC

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OCTOBER 26, 1985