Synonyms for doltish

Grammar : Adj

Spell : dohlt

Phonetic Transcription : doʊlt

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Définition of doltish

Origin : 1540s, perhaps a variant of dold "dull, foolish," influenced by dulte, dolte, past participle forms of Middle English dullen "to dull, make or become dazed or stupid" (see dull (adj.)). Related: Doltish; doltishly; doltishness.

adj stupid

Example sentences :

Is it that doltish Jules, who looks an absolute fool, but may be masking his game!
Extract from : « Messengers of Evil » by Pierre Souvestre

The common English are doltish; except in the North, where you won't do much with them.
Extract from : « Beauchamp's Career, Complete » by George Meredith

You wanted me, my money, everything, and had nothing to give in return except your own doltish self.
Extract from : « A Bottle of Old Wine » by Richard O. Lewis

I blushed at my idiocy; the idea of being so doltish and timid with a flower seller!
Extract from : « My Neighbor Raymond (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XI) » by Charles Paul de Kock

Such air as these Germans had was a blackguard air of doltish ugliness—dull, gross, incurable.
Extract from : « War » by Pierre Loti

I looked at his furtive eyes and brutal, doltish face, but he kept them blank as a wall.
Extract from : « To Have and To Hold » by Mary Johnston

They enjoyed the situation, as the commercial traveller could see from their doltish looks.
Extract from : « Pelle the Conqueror, Complete » by Martin Anderson Nexo

She almost touched him, but though his spirit recoiled, the doltish flesh would not be moved.
Extract from : « Idolatry » by Julian Hawthorne

What demon let loose your tongue, you who keep a doltish silence whenever I speak to you?
Extract from : « A Start in Life » by Honore de Balzac

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