dolt
Example Sentences
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Now I can sense more than a few people calling me a dolt.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022
But the finest wigs and tattoos can only take the audience so far in viewing Lee, a man dripping with sleaze, as a short-fused dolt who is honestly and obviously in love with his wife.
From Salon • Feb. 3, 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
It couldn’t be Toby already—the dolt had only just left for the morning’s luggage pickup an hour ago.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
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