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
There’s the thief and his dolt of a sidekick, ironically nicknamed “the Brain”; a newly arrived doctor faced with a daily parade of petty hypochondriacs; and a barber who doubles as a D.I.Y. dentist.
From New York Times • Jul. 30, 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
I rode home, calling myself a dolt but rejoicing nonetheless.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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