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Meanings of dolt in English
A person who is not very bright.
A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
Synonyms
Examples for "stupid"
Examples for "stupid"
1
His surprise made him stupid; he was in an abyss of astonishment.
2
The dull reviewer has two varieties: the stupid and the merely dull.
3
The men are remarkably idle and stupid; they are tawny and lean.
4
The more stupid the peasant, the better does the horse understand him.
5
He looked me full in the face with stupid insolence, and said:
1
The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard.
2
Hues charming and fair may move the wise and not the dullard.
3
How in God's name did you come to marry such a dullard?
4
He must be a dullard indeed who fails to understand their symbolism.
5
Not a whit more than that dullard knew a million years ago.
1
For the pain, mustard poultices, turpentine stupe or hot fomentations prove beneficial.
2
The old stupe is still alive at Petersfield, and as pompous-headed as ever.
3
He is nothing but a very soft-natured stupe.
4
Maybe I can't write much more than my own fuckin name, but I ain't no stupe.'
5
Put a towel over the stupe.
1
I mean, apart from being a pillock, it just demonstrates his ignorance.
2
Just don't be a complete gung-ho pillock this time, will you?
3
Morgan can be a prime-grade pillock, but Lee was set on affirming himself as gold-leafed wagyu.
4
Get into the blackhawk, you little pillock, or we'll send you right back into the beyond again.
5
She looked at him like he was a pillock and rather impolitely failed to suppress a laugh.
1
The stupid person is a poor joke, the clever, a good one.
2
He gives the impression of being an unusually stupid person and a reptile.
3
Do you expect that the honest, stupid person will judge thus?
4
And you are doing a great impression of a stupid person.
5
In a zombie movie, this is the way the stupid person gets bitten.
1
"But, just the same, that policeman is a pudding head," he added, loudly.
1
You get on with your work and don't bother your pudden head about what ain't in no way your business.
1
He was a poor fish, Gashwiler; a country storekeeper without a future.
2
We have only sixteen opposition members in the House-andthey're poor fish.
3
The poor fish claps his hand to his forehead and cries 'Gadzooks!
4
That's how it seemed to the poor fish by this time-hishonour!
5
The thing that matters is that you are talking piffle, you poor fish.
Usage of dolt in English
1
The man is a dolt, but he tries to tell the truth.
2
Perhaps he might not be the absolute dolt that Hurrell pronounced him.
3
She limped, the dolt, but all the same she had some pluck.
4
A dolt you've always been, else you had not asked the question.
5
There he gently cursed himself for a fool, a dolt, an idiot.
6
Moreover, did you not lay it upon me to beguile the dolt?
7
Delighted to find that you are neither reading nor writing,-theabsurd dolt!
8
There was no use in wasting delicate satire on a dolt.
9
Speak louder, will you: I am a General I know that, you dolt.
10
You could have stood a rooted dolt like all the remainder of us.
11
The dolt didn't even recognize the spirit under her cool facade.
12
You are a dolt. He was touching upon the letters again.
13
But the old dolt will have to repay me my money.
14
Heidi would have laughed at him and called him a dolt.
15
What a dolt I was not to have told him of my suspicions.
16
It was like being told she was a dolt, only in nicer language.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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