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Meanings of doltish in English

Showing a lack of good sense, wisdom or forethought.

Heavy and dull and stupid.

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Examples for "cloddish"
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But Kelly needs walls in order to make us aware of their cloddish redundancy.
The new yorker
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His explanations, when cornered, seemed cloddish, but there's a certain bureaucratic grace at work.
The Guardian
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The historian remarks: "The cloddish, shiftless farmer is perhaps safer in Massachusetts."
A Truthful Woman in Southern California
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Something more than cloddish prejudice seemed to be at work.
The Disposable Male
5
Our thoughts, on the contrary, were fast becoming cloddish.
The Blithedale Romance
Usage of doltish in English
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Jonathan smiled the way you might smile at a particularly doltish child.
The skin trade
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The clock is running out on the Bush version of doltish ignorance.
Reuters
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Billy-Joe responded with a doltish grin, and dived clean through the doughnut.
The Naked God
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She listened, her doltish face opening its mouth, her little eyes blinking.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
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The only clue possible lay in watching the doltish London clerk.
The Midnight Passenger : A Novel
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She caught the old mercer in a moment of doltish calm.
Theresa Raquin
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I felt very doltish and unready as I followed him to the drawing-room.
The Yeoman Adventurer
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Feverish irritability, a constant absorption in thought, made Calyste almost doltish.
Beatrix
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Never mind she was ten times better at the work than her doltish brothers.
Return of the Crimson Guard
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They enjoyed the situation, as the commercial traveller could see from their doltish looks.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01
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Of his doltish half brother- But most of all of his younger sister Geryl.
Gather, Darkness!
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He thought of himself as slow, doltish, conservative, uninspired.
East of eden
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Given a little help, the most doltish consumer can act smarter -without even realizing it.
Wired
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The common English are doltish; except in the North, where you won't do much with them.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 6
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She almost touched him, but though his spirit recoiled, the doltish flesh would not be moved.
Idolatry: A Romance
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Leave me alone, thou dull, doltish, stupid day!
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
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