(n.) A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
(v. i.) To behave foolishly.
Example Sentences:
(1) George is unreliable... untrustworthy... to coin a phrase, a dolt."
(2) 28 mins: Look at the pedantic dolts I have to deal with: "So which bit of '4 mins ... 7mins ... 10 mins' is 'minute-by-minute' commentary, exactly?"
(3) His predecessor, Richard Daley, was embraced as an authentic Chicagoan with no ambitions beyond the city, even if he came across in public as a monosyllabic dolt.
(4) Analyses were conducted on three reference standard materials certified for their methyl mercury content, DOLT-1, DORM-1, and TORT-1, provided by the National Research Council of Canada.
(5) The cull might help to destroy the industry these bloody-minded dolts claim to defend.
(6) Some dolt in a car coat jogs around for a while, before being shoved to the ground by several police officers waving sticks.
(7) Of course, if you have £9bn to spend on a party, surely only a dolt could fail.
(8) Another critique of the great war is that the troops were commanded by dolts, a fact it must be said that is contested by many eminent historians.
(9) That's the point of the episode, you catastrophic dolt.
Doofus
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I don’t know if it was Obama or Hillary (I suspected Hillary), but it’s really something to focus group beforehand.” In December, when Tanden wrote in praise of the Paris climate deal, Podesta responded: “Can you believe that doofus Bernie attacked it?” Then, in March this year, Clinton strategist Minyon Moore opined: “I think Sanders is a rule breaker and has no institutional loyalty to the Democratic Party; we should expect him to ignore the rules and persist in his quest to flip superdelegates despite overwhelming evidence that reflects his considerable weaknesses with the Democratic base and no doubt in the general.” Tanden, meanwhile, pulled no punches when Clinton’s campaign hesitated over whether to condemn Democratic activist David Brock for demanding Sanders’ medical records.
(2) And yet us doofuses who came here to watch thought he might bother saying something interesting beyond that!
(3) He was, it seemed, destined to be a professional doofus.