dolt

Example Sentences

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Previous seasons present Greg as the hapless dolt who acts as the idiot's edition of a Greek chorus.

From Salon • May 15, 2023

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

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