dolt
Speech parts
1. dolt - Noun
2. dolt - Verb
Meaning
A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
To behave foolishly.
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Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.
O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause.
Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
As long as the clouds dolt weep, the pasture cannot laugh.
The economy, stupid!
I think I am resisting it because accepting it now seems to require accepting that Franzen is both a clueless dolt who does not know the world “as it is” and also kind of a clumsy and shitty writer.