doltish

as in stupid
not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily foolish and doltish behavior that was really beneath you

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Adjective
  • His is a sort of erudite buffoonery that consistently tap-dances between clever, self-aware, and patently stupid.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Each of them loses track of a CD filled with secrets, and some end up dying in the stupidest possible ways because of their incompetence.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Ratajkowski has been fighting the stereotype of the dumb model from the beginning of her career.
    Daniel Jackson, Allure, 18 July 2017
  • Ninety nine percent of all NFL players are explicitly not dumb.
    Andy Benoit, The MMQB, 10 July 2017
Adjective
  • The shark’s slow movement may have allowed the octopus to stay latched on, but if the mako had picked up speed, the octopus likely would have been forced off.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Instead of moving with strength or purpose, the suit is agile, lithe, and capable of sliding out of the way of green projectiles to trigger a slow down and gain access to more powerful attacks.
    Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Martha Stewart and Mila Kunis carried ones that looked like this simple option.
    Clint Davis, People.com, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Murena Pixel Tablet Apps Switching away from Google's flavor of Android will always result in an app gap, and there's no simple way around it.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Unfortunately, last April’s total solar eclipse was a bust for me, and the U.K.’s weather tends to be uncooperative for celestial events, often hiding them behind thick clouds.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The open-faced turkey sandwich, traditionally served warm on a thick slice of toast with bacon, tomatoes, and Mornay sauce, is a headliner on the Bluegrass State’s long list of culinary contributions.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • My big mistake was in not challenging from the stage the foolish few who booed.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 31 Mar. 2025
  • While tailback isn’t a need, only foolish franchises pass up the opportunity to add generational talents like Jeanty.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Another director might have shied away from such minutiae or worse, be completely ignorant of them.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Consider that Mahmoud Khalil, an anti-war protester and recent graduate of Columbia University, was arrested on a Saturday night by ICE agents who appeared ignorant of his status as a legal U.S. resident and his rights thereof.
    Nisha Whitehead, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025
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“Doltish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doltish. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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