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Meanings of doltish in English
Synonyms
Examples for "foolish"
Examples for "foolish"
1
One must be the half-foolish Nicko; the other must be the spy.
2
It was foolish to question the power in that grave, sardonic face.
3
He looked very foolish; and sat down in a corner without speaking.
4
The Bishop did a foolish thing in talking of the metropolitan press.
5
The foolish comfortable words spoken in every drawing-room throughout the United Kingdom.
1
He looked silly enough in truth; but he never bothered about it.
2
I was silly to be mixed up with it in the beginning.
3
Lay aside affected, silly etiquette for the natural dictates of the heart.
4
They were just silly, ordinary fussinesses; they had no sense in them.
5
The idea of yonder silly creature being the companion of a MAN.
Usage of doltish in English
1
Jonathan smiled the way you might smile at a particularly doltish child.
2
The clock is running out on the Bush version of doltish ignorance.
3
Billy-Joe responded with a doltish grin, and dived clean through the doughnut.
4
She listened, her doltish face opening its mouth, her little eyes blinking.
5
The only clue possible lay in watching the doltish London clerk.
6
She caught the old mercer in a moment of doltish calm.
7
I felt very doltish and unready as I followed him to the drawing-room.
8
Feverish irritability, a constant absorption in thought, made Calyste almost doltish.
9
Never mind she was ten times better at the work than her doltish brothers.
10
They enjoyed the situation, as the commercial traveller could see from their doltish looks.
11
Of his doltish half brother- But most of all of his younger sister Geryl.
12
He thought of himself as slow, doltish, conservative, uninspired.
13
Given a little help, the most doltish consumer can act smarter -without even realizing it.
14
The common English are doltish; except in the North, where you won't do much with them.
15
She almost touched him, but though his spirit recoiled, the doltish flesh would not be moved.
16
Leave me alone, thou dull, doltish, stupid day!
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