dork
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If I looked like a dork, at least I could zoom quickly past the judgment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
“The song immediately came to my mind when I read it, and I laughed out loud in my car so loud, like a huge dork, and it was fantastic.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
He doesn’t seem to be acting like a dork for the sake of views, or to trick us into believing his falsities.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2024
I worried for a bit that I was becoming a slightly self-involved dork, the sort of person who might, in earnest, Instagram a gratitude list.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2024
I didn’t even have a cell phone, which of course made me the biggest dork around.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
They’re practically statesmen compared with the dorks of yore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
At bottom, though, Rogen’s movies are sweet, fumbling love stories about sweet, fumbling dorks, and this has helped them age well.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2021
Candid photos like this one allow us to see public officials looking like utter dorks as they try to run the country.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2021
The best manifestation of this is in the relationship between two characters named Demetri and Eli, who start the series as the dorkiest of the dorks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2021
We want to kiss each other good-bye, but instead we wave like awkward dorks and get into our cars and drive away in different directions.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
