How to Use dorky in a Sentence

dorky

adjective

• These two are both have a bit of a dorky side, in the best way possible.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 22 Nov. 2019
• These two both have a bit of a dorky side but in the best way possible.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 16 June 2022
• These two both have a bit of a dorky side, but in the best way possible.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 2 Sep. 2020
• The iA, Scion's first four-door sedan, reminds you of a barstool with a dorky cartoon fish on top.
  — Sam Smith, Wired News, 8 Apr. 2015
• The newest $249 Pro edition, improves on the original with better sound, enhanced fit in the ear and a less dorky look.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2019
• Whatever the case, here are a few suggestions for treating your dorky lover.
  — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2018
• There’s some really smart people out there, and great and funny [people], and sort of a little bit dorky like me.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• Here’s how to rock the red, white, and blue this Fourth of July without any of the cornball risks or dorky potential for disaster.
  — Yang-Yi Goh, GQ, 3 July 2018
• As far as dorky corporate shticks are concerned, at least this one has the potential to briefly flash the discourse back to a simpler time.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 25 Feb. 2020
• These are the smoother, romantic, and dorky songs that make an artist of Drake's status feel suddenly real.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 19 Mar. 2017
• The dorky, tragedy-blind campaign contrasts with the terror everyone still carries about post-squid New York.
  — Jamie Fisher, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2021
• There’s suspense, corporate intrigue, daring hijinks and a dorky guy with a crush on a girl.
  — cleveland, 5 Aug. 2021
• Avatar: The Way of Water is both more extravagant and dorkier than Avatar, which was pretty dorky to begin with.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 Dec. 2022
• In this team game, one player wears dorky glasses with an erasable marker attached and tries to draw objects that her teammates can guess.
  — Marylou Tousignant, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• With Alex's slightly dorky guidance, the teens forge a new alliance to figure out what exactly Pride has been doing all these years.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2017
• The result, as Pickman accurately points out, was that endurance road rigs always had a dorky rep as an old man’s bike.
  — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 30 Aug. 2021
• Described as your dorky next door neighbor who grew up to be hot but couldn’t shake being a dork, Daniel is an investigator at Jax’s law firm.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 Nov. 2021
• As designers and fashion-minded young guys embrace dorky dad style, the men who invented the look are leaving it behind.
  — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 19 Oct. 2017
• Their targets are diverse, running the gamut from earnestly dorky teen love stories and picture books about penguins to Pulitzer-winning works of fiction.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
• Camila Mendes dressed up as the dorky and ever-lovable Mary Sanderson, piling her dark hair into a sky-high point on top of her head with little purple curls peeking out.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 31 Oct. 2022
• That Leonard is better suited to Sandra seems obvious until Michelle takes him out for the night, and this shlumpy, melancholic man dives onto the dance floor to show off some dorky but ambitious moves.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
• But, more important, Cameron hasn’t lost the ability to convey his dorky-sweet enthusiasm to the audience.
  — Vulture, 13 Dec. 2022
• Cutting the frames off would leave the windows unsupported, but leaving the window frames in their entirety would look extremely dorky.
  — Barry Winfield, Car and Driver, 2 Jan. 2023
• Here, telegraphed loud and clear in the first 30 seconds of class, was Everett-Kennedy’s teaching brand: endearingly dorky enthusiast.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2021
• Just do some push-ups, share a tender kiss with your partner in crime, and get really into your dorky anthropomorphic OC instead.
  — Vulture, 18 Apr. 2022
• The classic bag was in vogue more than 20 years ago, then adopted a dorky reputation before its coolness factor recently began to rise again.
  — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 9 June 2017
• The classic bag was in vogue more than 20 years ago, then adopted a dorky reputation before its coolness factor recently began to rise again.
  — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 9 June 2017
• At the end of the episode, it is revealed that Sheldon’s therapist is a supervillain Dr. Jack Hobbs, who’s serving a life sentence in jail, which is incredibly cool for a show that can get kind of dorky and moralistic.
  — Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, 10 May 2021
• Meet Mei Lee, a dorky 13-year-old torn between remaining a dutiful daughter to her overprotective mother and the chaos of adolescence.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 7 Mar. 2022
• But longer shorts are making a stab at acceptability again in ways that some men welcome and other men consider irredeemably dorky.
  — Jamie Waters, WSJ, 24 May 2022

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024