dolt
Example Sentences
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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
The long-nosed fire chief of a Washington ski town helps a dolt woo the astronomer he loves.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2019
Which made him wonder if he’d ever been a talented Usher, or if he’d just been a dolt guided by the all-knowing Afterlife.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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