doltish
Example Sentences
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Though the movie rockets Judge’s doltish heroes into the future, it feels like a charming artifact from the past.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2022
A social-climbing stepmother and a doltish Babbitt of a father use the newly minted petrodollars to grease their entry into Dallas nouveau riche society.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2020
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 • May 27, 2019
She is a smooth villain, and people love to hate Omarosa as opposed to simply finding her repugnant and doltish.
From Salon • Aug. 14, 2018
He thought of himself as slow, doltish, conservative, uninspired.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
