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Doltishness

doltish \dolt"ish\ (d[=o]lt"[i^]sh), a. Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown. -- Dolt"ish*ly, adv. -- Dolt"ish*ness, n. [1913 Webster] ||

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doltishness

n. The characteristic of being doltish.

Usage examples of "doltishness".

One should not wrongly reify "cause" and "effect" as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now "naturalizes" in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it "effects" its end.

Grant took it in good-humored silence, forcing a smile at his own expense, thinking that he hadn't encountered such doltishness since he'd said good-bye to Raoul Tavalera on the old Roberts.

Who has not observed how renegade genius goes a-begging, is actually punished, while the sycophant's every doltishness is pardoned?