: a stupid person
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What a dolt I've been!
he's always jokingly calling his best friend a dolt
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After all, those sipping the tea were wealthy and thus successful, while the dolts reading think tank reports were just bureaucrats, one Administration official groused.
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Never forget that conventional wisdom in 1981 regarded Reagan as a Hollywood dolt.
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But in the wake of Charlottesville, only a dolt would believe that explanation.
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Izzard plays Bertie as a dolt and a reactionary boob, in line with the movie’s opinion of anti-immigrant sentiment in present-day Europe.
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Democratic National Committee boss Tom Perez is a profane dolt and the party seems to care only about regaining power.
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Bring it on hit me* to a large male who told him off golly just imagine what the unhinged teeny dolt could do an a good day.
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Social media posts have characterized the play’s critics as literary dolts and supporters as liberals without morals who advocate violence against the president.
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The temptation is to think dolts at the Pentagon don’t care enough to outfit troops with modern gear.
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Origin and Etymology of dolt
probably akin to Old English dol foolish
dolt Synonyms
Synonyms
airhead, blockhead, chucklehead, dimwit, dodo, donkey, dope, dork [slang], dullard, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, fathead, goof, goon, half-wit, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, know-nothing, knucklehead, lamebrain, loon, lunkhead, moron, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull (or numbskull), oaf, pinhead, saphead, simpleton, stock, turkey, yahoo, yo-yo;
Related Words
booby, buffoon, fool, goose, loony, lunatic, madman, nut, zany;
gawk;
beast, boor, cad, clown, creep, heel, jerk, skunk, snake, stinker, villain;
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