What is "doltish"

Usage examples of "doltish".

In spite of his Doltish condition, she could gladly have hugged him, but instead she offered a hand, which he took without emotion.

Victor alternated between standing on his Doltish dignity and allowing the kindly influence of Maggie and of home life and the irrepressibly friendly Colin to soak more and more deeply into him.

And crude as it was, it was obviously Victor himself, wearing his most Doltish expression.

It cast a winking sugary light that spoke to my soul in a most peculiar way: Mmmm, I thought with a sort of doltish delectation.

Putting up with a doltish cousin and penurious foster parents for a few years scarcely seems the Cinderella-ish plight Rowling intends it to appear, considering the Oxford of wizard schools is waiting to bring Harry into the fold.

I see nothing of her in them, only how stupid and doltish I appear to her.

When I consider my own sons, doltish buffoons with whom no man of sense can converse, I despair of my misfortune.

That part of his mind which sometimes spoke to him in dry detachment told him that his fears were probably groundless and that his gawking made him appear to be a doltish country bumpkin.

Or are medical personnel so doltish that they idly glance at the half-human, half-alien foetus and move on to the next patient?

Perhaps I should have brought Fraxinus instead of that doltish amber but he might not have agreed to come, and there was no time for elaborate discussion.

I went to bed full of joy at having given the burgomaster's wife such a signal proof of my love, and full of gratitude to fortune who had helped me so in dealing with my doltish general, for God knows what I should have done if he had forgotten himself so far as to tell me to leave the table!