doltish

Example Sentences

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He acts like a preening buffoon with pretensions of grandeur — doltish and delusional in equal measure.

From Washington Post

When her doltish spouse asks Eliza which of them loves the other more, hilarious grammatical confusion rapidly ensues:

From Washington Post

Co-directors Christian Stella and Jeremy Gardner — the latter of whom also wrote the screenplay and plays the doltish boyfriend, Hank — give this common scenario some dimension and personality.

From Los Angeles Times

Albert, played with a delightfully malleable range of complaining and distaste by Sean Sekino, is a computer programmer frustrated by his doltish colleagues even as he lets them steal credit for his work.

From Washington Post

In 1830, Alexander Pushkin used that rumor as the basis for his play “Mozart and Salieri,” casting the former as a doltish genius and the latter as a jealous schemer.

From The New Yorker