What is "dolt"

Usage examples of "dolt".

I found no silly least auklet - not wandering down the paths, either, or dolting underfoot.

He would rather have things as they were, and see his mother lacerating her soul by feigning an emotion that should have been natural to her, and his half-brother showing himself a dolt by believing her, than see them embracing happily as uncursed mothers and their children do.

Self-dignity feels outraged, my wit dies away, and I play the part of a dolt.

I wonder how these dolts think they can pull this chestnut out of the coals.

I can keep these poisonous dolts from scrying me out, but alas, they can do the same to me.

Even a half-blind dolt could have seen another such outburst here aborning, and Bili was more perceptive than most.

It was an ancient and a sad matron of a sedate look and christian walking, in habit dun beseeming her megrims and wrinkled visage, nor did her hortative want of it effect for incontinently Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of a rebel, thou dykedropt, thou abortion thou, to shut up his drunken drool out of that like a curse of God ape, the good sir Leopold that had for his cognisance the flower of quiet, margerain gentle, advising also the time's occasion as most sacred and most worthy to be most sacred.

That she, the strong-minded Amazon, the lion-hearted wielder of the sword of justice, the indomitable scorner of men should thus have been cozened, baffled, bamboozled like any groundling or village dolt was inconceivable.

He screamed abuse at the khagan: "Thou dolt, thou clodpoll, thou idiot puling mousling with fantasies of manhood!

Even the workers currently re-building the city consist mainly of women, children, the dolts and dotards who were unfit to fight in the siege, brute peasants conscripted from the outlying lands.

Tonight of all nights, when speed and secrecy was what Al needed, the dolt found the single streak of determination that beat in his flabby heart.

The only thing I was really afraid of was that these dolts of AVO men I had with me might call me Major Howarth in front of the commandant, instead of Captain Zsolt as I had coached them to call me, for reasons, I said, which Furmint would personally explain to them if any of them blundered.

There is no reason to describe ourselves, in our greatest notional effort, cls unprofessional dolts into the bargain.

In fact, if Teron hadn't been such an irritating dolt, the Xixon creature would never have got into the main cabin.

Men, dolts that we are, will take whatever we're offered in the way of sexual favors.