What's the difference between coltish and doltish?
Coltish
Definition:
(a.) Like a colt; wanton; frisky.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sudden fame can do strange things to teenagers but, following the 2-1 win against Australia at Sunderland , Sterling and Henderson are confident Rashford will comfortably take it in his rangy, coltish stride.
(2) Photograph: Jill Mead for the Guardian In season four there was an all-female final with a memorable cast: the designer Frances Quinn, who was always having “ideas”; the confident, self-assured Kimberley Wilson, who, to no one’s surprise, knew a word in Japanese for the notion of always being able to push yourself beyond your apparent limits; the coltishly beautiful Ruby Tandoh , who flavoured her bakes with a brooding melancholy.
(3) Daniel Day-Lewis's embodiment of the Great Emancipator, which transcends mere acting and becomes something more like live sculpting, will take every Best Actor statuette and bauble of the spring awards season, without a doubt, and is now the Lincoln to beat; an Elder Lincoln to bookend Henry Fonda's coltish and knock-kneed Young Mr Lincoln in John Ford's exquisite slice of Americana from 1939.
Doltish
Definition:
(a.) Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown.
Example Sentences:
(1) A doltish young buck, hairless and pouting, will clatter through the doors of an annoying boutique.