dolt

Example Sentences

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Marsden: I’m just sort of a dolt, a Hollywood dolt who just doesn’t understand the real-world stuff, right?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Now I can sense more than a few people calling me a dolt.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022

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

In the NFL, there is a fine line between being considered a genius and a dolt.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2020

There was no response to this comment from the other men, all of whom thought Cloon an insufferable dolt.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols