(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.
Nolt
Definition:
(n. sing. & pl.) Neat cattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have not sought to understate the achievements of the NHS – but a 2008 study by Martin McKee and Ellen Nolte , citing OECD data, concluded that the UK had one of the worst rates of mortality amenable to healthcare among rich nations.
(2) For Lindqvist, Nolte's mistake was to look east for Hitler's inspiration.
(3) At the same post-menstrual age (39-41 weeks), EEG maturation assessed according to the Nolte and Haas method (Nolte, R. and Haas, H.G.
(4) A spot in the best actor list has been found for Demián Bichir, the Mexico-born lead of East LA saga A Better Life , and one in the best supporting actor list for Nick Nolte for Warrior , completing a Hollywood rehabilitation after his arrest for DUI in 2002.
(5) As well as Crowe, Noah stars Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson, Douglas Booth, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte, Ray Winstone and Frank Langella.
(6) This study replicates the finding of Nolte et al and suggests parents need to be actively recruited to discourage their children from smoking, regardless of their own behavior.
(7) Rooney Mara, considered an outsider in the best actress category, was included after all, while Nick Nolte and Max von Sydow were surprise nods in the supporting actor field.
(8) In 1983, Nolte and colleagues reported parental attitude may be more powerful than parental behavior in shaping adolescent cigarette smoking behavior.
(9) For starters, he was Nolte-ishly burly tending to fat, and the core of his appeal is a doe-eyed innocence, easily amped up to the phosphorescent dimness of Parks And Recreation ’s Andy Dwyer, but it’s not necessarily built for toughness.
(10) As optimal therapy with inhaled steroids invariably demands the use of a spacer (Nolte, 1989), a specific inhalation device adapted to flunisolide metered dose inhaler was required.
(11) The early statements that the EEG alone could correctly be used for the assessment of gestational age (cf., among others, Dreyfus-Brisac, 1964; Parmelee et al., 1968; and Nolte et al., 1969), even in pathological babies, need some restrictive qualifications.
(12) His return to Hollywood with The Thin Red Line won him the Golden Bear at Berlin and seven Oscar nominations and although he cast famous names including George Clooney, John Cusack and Nick Nolte, many of the stars were cut out entirely and those who remained played second fiddle to a greater tale about man's place in the natural order.
(13) And during the historikerstreit (historians' quarrel) in 1980s Germany, Ernst Nolte provoked fury among fellow intellectuals with his contention that the Holocaust was Hitler's "distorted copy" of Stalin's extermination of the Kulaks.
(14) Evaluation of the ionic strength dependence concurs with the results of Nolte et al.
(15) After correction for cuticle absorption, the psychophysical spectral sensitivity function was compared with previously reported spectral sensitivity functions obtained either from electrophysiologic (Millecchia, Bradbury, and Mauro, 1966; Nolte and Brown, 1970) or from microspectrophotometric (Murry, 1966) recordings from single, isolated ventral eye photoreceptor cells.
(16) The most lurid complaint came from John Nolte, writing on the rightist aggregation site Breitbart.com , who charged Crowley not only with jumping into the debate to take Obama's side but also of steering the entire debate in such a way as to make it "a total and complete setup to rehabilitate Barack Obama".
(17) In response, Burstow cites a 2008 paper by McKee and Nolte which he says "concluded that the UK had one of the worst rates of mortality amenable to healthcare among rich nations".