Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a doltish manner; stupidly.
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- adverb In a
doltish manner
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- adverb in a stupid manner
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Examples
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• Obama is doltishly called a "racist" with "a deep-seated hatred for white people" by beer
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• Obama is doltishly called a "racist" with "a deep-seated hatred for white people" by beer
Paul Slansky: This Preposterous Week in Review Paul Slansky 2010
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• Obama is doltishly called a "racist" with "a deep-seated hatred for white people" by beer
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But then just as I was dozing off, CNN's Campbell Brown doltishly asked the panel, "Besides abortion and gay rights, what other women's issues are there?"
Diane Tucker: RNC Hockey Mom Speech Night: She Shoots, She Scores! 2008
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Thou art here indicted by the name of Atheism (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul), for that thou hast perniciously and doltishly taught and maintained that there is no God, and so no heed to be taken to religion.
The Holy War 2001
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They could not hear, but could imagine, and they stared at her doltishly.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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Under proper treatment, a Chinese witness is by no means doggedly stubborn or doltishly stupid; he may be either or both if he has previously been tampered with by native officials, but even then it is not absolutely impossible to defeat his dishonesty.
Historic China, and other sketches Herbert Allen Giles 1890
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In the transport of his indignation, he resolved not doltishly to be thus outwitted to his ruin.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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In the transport of his indignation, he resolved not doltishly to be thus outwitted to his ruin.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Smiling doltishly in front of the TV lights in Bayern Munich's car park as if he had done nothing wrong, Tevez himself had the nerve to offer the same feeble mantra.
The Guardian World News Paul Wilson 2011
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