dolt
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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
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
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
What we’re finding is that it also brings out the height of our humanity, our better spirits, and summons, even in dolts like me, hidden reserves of courage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2017
Never before had I seen my family as such half-wits, such hayseeds, such dolts.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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