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"dolt" Definitions
  1. a stupid person

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Jack Conway is a partner at Dolt, Thompson, Shepherd & Conway.
She tries to set up her daughter with a huge dolt.
Reagan was thought to be senile, George W. Bush a dolt.
Dolt was his first youth coach, and Collet has been around since 2011.
They're hard to talk about without sounding like an aspiring guru or credulous dolt.
"It was our first time seeing that," Lauriane Dolt, an assistant coach, said, laughing.
It amazes me — the dolt really doesn't seem to get the twisted effects of Gilead.
He treated her silence as evidence that she was either a dolt or a stooge.
David, a total dolt, waltzes throughout the movie with a perpetual expression of stung disbelief.
This is not that episode of No Reservations where Anthony Bourdain visits Chengdu you dolt.
Oldest son Axl (Charlie McDermott), a sweet-natured dolt, has taken a job in Denver.
McGovern's crisis solidified impressions that he was a dolt and a ditherer -- that he was unpresidential.
His accomplice is a dolt with dandruff issues; their contact in Delhi is a useless snob.
"This is the behavior of a jerk, a clod, a dolt, a schmuck," the editorial board wrote.
It's clear that the dog is more upset about the accident than the dolt in the chair.
You are not necessarily ingenuous, or even a dolt in classics, if you confuse that word with ingenious.
I consider Trump a swaggering, overcompensating dolt who is nonetheless seen as tough and strong and masculine by millions of Americans.
A splenetic call to lock America's president in an asylum, the piece described Mr Trump as "dolt-like" and an "old lunatic".
It is not all Mr Trump's doing—though his ridiculing of Jeb as a "low-energy" dolt has been relentless and brilliant.
Is all of this making you feel like a bit of a dolt, albeit one that is common in our nation's idiocracy?
It is obviously judgmental, encompassing life as well as work, so it tells a supermarket clerk that he must be a dolt.
Be prepared for an even more authoritarian decent when the curtain is pulled back on this totally unwizardly dolt and his klan of dangerous fools.
She is there only by mistake, her dolt of a groom having booked it for their honeymoon instead of a hotel at Disney's Magic Kingdom.
Predictably, Cheney is depicted as an evil mastermind, his wife Lynn as a scheming climber and former President George W. Bush as an easily manipulated dolt.
The final story, "A Fair Price," features yet another self-involved, largely clueless dolt, but this guy lacks even the minor charms of his neurotic predecessors.
It won't happen with ABC News having football player turned "journalist" Michael Strahan wasting resources and time with an exclusive interview of a dolt like Dennis Rodman.
Dani's passive-aggressive dolt of a boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor) isn't much help, and he blames her for his neglectful behaviour as well as for her own woes.
During a walk in "Hearts," Elizabeth calls son-in-law Nathan (James Tupper) a "complete dolt" and "dumb as a rock" when it comes to emotional social intelligence.
Everywhere you look, there'd be some dolt likening Danny Tanner's mug to the face of Camila Harrison, the late matriarch of the Harrison family who produces the hot sauce.
Frances McDormand may win the Oscar for how she channels her character Mildred's grief into violence; Sam Rockwell may win another for imbuing a racist dolt with a soul.
It tells the story of a farm-life-fixated dolt who kills his wife rather than sit still for her plan to sell off her land and move to Omaha.
Yeah of course it's $10,000 goddamn dollars to birth a baby, you dolt, I thought as I watched, taking a long, knowing drag from the 1,000 cigarettes in my mouth.
More than one of the women in this novel is a monster, more than one of the men is an easily manipulated dolt or lech, and its view of mental illness is antediluvian.
One thing Trump's supporters tend to get right is that the political media in the United States is generally far too willing to paint a portrait of Trump as some kind of dolt.
The lame Claudius, regarded by many senators as "a pitiable dolt, the plaything of women and slaves," but beloved by at least some of the people, who thought he had their interests at heart.
Was it to warn voters that he's an erratic and dangerous dolt in advance of the critical midterm elections, with the expectation that a Democratic Congress will provide the oversight the Republicans have not?
The Under the Radar Magazine politics editor was going about his business when his Twitter mentions started to rise, with some people calling him a dolt and questioning whether he was part of the human population.
EPA chief Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, worked as the chief counsel for Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe, the dolt who brought a snowball to the Senate floor as proof that climate change is not a real crisis.
South Park imagines a world where people retreat into the past because their darkest secrets could be exposed at any moment and a dolt who never wanted to be president somehow attains the highest office in the land.
" Trudy is a manipulative green-eyed beauty who has fallen out of love with John and fallen in lust with his "priapic, satanic" younger brother, Claude — a dimwitted real estate developer and first-class dolt who "knows only clothes and cars.
Similarly, Colt might be a dolt, but the show is genuinely sympathetic to the fact that his dreams of playing professional football didn't work out, leaving him with no recourse but to return to the little town he thought he'd left behind forever.
As silly and trivial-minded as these characters are (Marais, so imposing in his incarnations as Cocteau's Beast and Orpheus, does superb work playing a simpering dolt), Cocteau's dramatic model, as ever, never strays too far from Greek tragedy and resolves appropriately.
To dismiss the easily consumable is to dismiss mass culture which is to be a complete fucking dolt, and the kind of ivory tower dwelling nonentity that pretends they've never heard of Big Macs or Big Brother or Barry Scott from the Cilit Bang adverts.
Her love for Sebastian—a lusty dolt, and little else—is out of all proportion, and when she tells him, "I'd rather stop you breathing than have you doubt how I feel," we sense the clutch of something cold and mad in her, and we flinch.
The film's greatest achievement is that it tells an important story about a woman who learns to do a challenging job — and do it well, and revel in the thrill of accomplishment — while being chastised by her passive-aggressive, unhelpful friends and the dolt from Entourage.
But "Mercy" doesn't grant us an inside look at the Saviors' day-to-day operations, so we really have no idea whether Negan engages in any mind games with his subordinates to weed out subversives, or whether he runs his shop purely on trust and fear like a thuggish dolt.
In this case, the woman (Claire, played by Caitriona Balfe, giving one of TV's best, most sadly unheralded performances) has the most agency, and her gorgeous love interest (young, virgin Scotsman Jamie, played by Sam Heughan) is an occasional dolt who must be educated by her in the ways of love.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Struggling to shake his image as a bumbling dolt before local elections on Sunday, the acting governor of St. Petersburg made a rare public appearance this past week to open three new subway stations that had taken six years and cost more than $500 million to build.
"Dolt-like Trump should know that his backbone would be broken, to say nothing of 'bloody nose,' and the empire of America would go to the hell and the short history of the U.S. would end forever, the moment he destroys even a single blade of grass on this land," KCNA said.
This White House is such a pulsating example of unearned privilege (see here, here, here, here and here), that in a nation that prides itself on meritocracy and swears that those who work hard are rewarded, we see that it's also possible to be a rich dolt and still occupy one of the most powerful positions on earth.
Mr. Timbers has always favored faces that bring to mind the caricatures of Goya and Daumier, and you'll find prime examples of such types here, including Andrew Durand and Evan Harrington (as a nasty-minded thief and his severed head — yep that's right — of a brother) and the priceless Greg Hildreth, as a dolt named Goat.
LIMBAUGH: Yes, and they have all changed their stories about whether there was a spy or not, and by the way, some of these guys that have defended - Clapper and the rest of them say, well, they wouldn&apost have divulged this because it was classified, you dolt, somebody tweeted me that - well, not at the time we&aposre talking about it.
It plays by the rules of C.K.'s previous work, in making his clueless dolt of a character the butt of nearly every joke and surrounding him with wiser women who know what's up — especially when compared to the various male characters in the film, who range from men in their 60s who lust for teenagers to a loudmouthed comedy star who mimes masturbation when his friend is talking to an attractive woman on the phone.
Rushworth, who marries Maria, is a dolt cut from the same cloth as Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice, but his very doltishness makes him fun to read about.
Shepherd is also a member of Plural Dolt, an absurdist music theater group based in Los Angeles. In 2009, Shepherd voiced the role of Alex Miller on the fan produced audio series Star Trek: The Continuing Mission.
Livy, ix. 29. Caecus' brother, who shared the same praenomen, was distinguished by the cognomen Caudex, literally meaning a "treetrunk", although metaphorically it was an insult, meaning a "dolt." According to Seneca, he obtained the surname from his attention to naval affairs.Seneca the Younger, De Brevitate Vitae, 13.
In 1995, he debuted as a writer. He wrote six books: The Sexual Life of Moomintrolls, The View From a Room Without Windows, Russian Watch or Eternal Love, All President’s Girl-Friends, The President’s Return, The President’s Secret and four theater plays: The Lawn, The Godfather’s son, The Dolt and The Contrabassoonist.
Mama often also guilts Eunice, putting her more on edge. This leads to Eunice snapping back at her mother, calling her "old lady", and hysterically ranting. Eunice is unhappy with her marriage. She views her husband, Ed, as a dolt and has called him a dumb cluck or a goon numerous times.
He died at Rome in 1475 and was interred in the church of the Ara Coeli on the Capitoline. Under the entry for the word Dorbel, the Oxford English Dictionary gives the date of his death as 1455. The meaning of Dorbel (based on the name of Nicholas de Orbellis) is given as: a scholastical pedant, a dull-witted person, dolt.
The sternum is insufficient to support flight; these ground-bound birds evolved to take advantage of an island ecosystem with no predators. They live on fallen fruit and in the Primeval Universe they exist in a symbiotic relationship with the Ambalacoque tree. The name came from the Portuguese word doudo or doido, itself a loanword from Old English (cf. English "dolt").
And he was at a taco stand, like, "I'll take one of them there > enchiritos." Well, there was no enchirito on the menu, and I don't even know > what an enchirito is. But George W. was insistent, so they made him an > enchirito, and I got to witness the whole thing and I started feeling sorry > for him. What a dolt, man.
Victor does nothing but move around his apartment in a pattern. He throws one of his shoes out the closed window, and a glazier appears immediately with the shoe, and he and his ten-year-old-son, Michel, set to work fixing the pane. The glazier thinks Michel is a dolt, and things often have to be repeated. Victor's family keeps arriving to interrupt the glazier's work, and Mme.
Martin Luther then attacked Henry VIII in print, calling him a "pig, dolt, and liar". At the king's request, More composed a rebuttal: the Responsio ad Lutherum was published at the end of 1523. In the Responsio, More defended papal supremacy, the sacraments, and other Church traditions. More, though considered "a much steadier personality", described Luther as an "ape", a "drunkard", and a "lousy little friar" amongst other epithets.
The manicurist is a dolt and the stunt does not come off; but, immediately thereafter, River-Clyde is confronted by his real wife and children, who have traveled from England to intervene, with legal assistance. Annabel and her entourage escape the process server by boarding a train. When Morgan discovers that River-Clyde and his family are also on the train, he disconnects the caboose so that Annabel and her party drift free.
Ed Higgins is a character in "The Family" sketches on The Carol Burnett Show and, to a lesser extent, on the sitcom spin-off Mama's Family. In both cases, he was played by Harvey Korman. Among other things, Ed is a fiercely ill-tempered, slovenly, unsuccessful buffoon in The Family sketches. In his appearances on Mama's Family, however, the intensity of the character is toned down and he is more of an affable, buffoonish dolt.
He had been planning, along with Mark Powell and Bill "Dolt" Feuerer, to give the route another attempt, but had been beaten to it by the successful team. Nevertheless, Harding offered the triumphant team a warm congratulations. Over the Fourth of July Weekend in 2015, a major rockfall occurred on the Regular Northwest Face, severely altering pitches 10 and 11. In September 2016, Yosemite National Park Climbing Rangers climbed the route to assess its condition.
Elaine has had run-ins with her coworker Peggy on a few occasions. In "The Susie", Peggy tells Elaine, who she thinks is a woman named Susie, that Elaine is a "dolt" and "disaster". Later, in "The Apology", Peggy thinks Elaine has germs, and in retaliation Elaine intentionally coughs on Peggy's doorknob, rubs her stapler in her armpit and keyboard on her backside. Also in "The Susie", we learn of a woman named Sharon whom Elaine does not seem to care for.
Based on semantic analyses of baka entries in Japanese dictionaries and thesauruses, the lexicographer Michael Carr differentiates eight interrelated meanings. Three basic "fool; foolish" meanings distinguish baka1 "ass; jerk; fool", baka2 "ament; idiot; imbecile; fool" (ament is a rare word for "congenitally mentally deficient"), and baka3 "blockhead; dullard; dimwit; simpleton; dolt; fool". These are found in many frequently-used Japanese expressions. Some more insulting lexemes are bakamono "stupid/born fool", ōbaka "big fool damned idiot", and baka-yarō "stupid jerk, ass, asshole, dumbass".
He guesses Kanna's secret and asks her to teach him along with Fujio, and Shota manga skills". It is shown in chapter 4 that he made Kanna's heart race when he accidentally falls on her. Later on, Fumio wants the pen- name "The Jet-Black Crimson Knight"" but later goes along with "Prince Burly Dolt" a pen-name Kanna gives him when she becomes upset to her later regret and also surprise. Fumio is a fast reader of manga, only reading the last pages of each manga he reads much to Kanna's horror.
The Successful Pyrate is a play by Charles Johnson, first performed 1712, published 1713, dealing with the life of the pirate Henry Avery. It opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 7 November 1712 and ran for five evenings. The original cast included Barton Booth as Arviragus, Robert Wilks as Aranes, John Mills as Boreal, Theophilus Keene as De Sale, William Pinkethman as Sir Gaudy Tulip, Henry Norris as Chicane, John Leigh as Jollyboy, William Bullock as Judge Bull, Christopher Bullock as Serjeant Dolt and Mary Porter as Zaida.
17th century portrait of Charles d'Alencon, Marguerite's first husband. At the age of seventeen Marguerite was married to Charles IV of Alençon, aged twenty, by the decree of King Louis XII (who also arranged the marriage of his ten-year-old daughter, Claude, to Francis). With this decree, Marguerite was forced to marry a generally kind, but practically-illiterate man for political expediency—"the radiant young princess of the violet-blue eyes... had become the bride of a laggard and a dolt". She had been bartered to save the royal pride of Louis, by keeping the County of Armagnac in the family.
Her father, Sir Robert Salt, is portrayed as a spineless dolt for giving his daughter her wishes. In the Nut Sorting Room, Veruca runs foul of the nut-testing squirrels who deem her a 'bad nut' when she tries to steal one of them. This summons oversized squirrels with Oompa-Loompas riding on their backs. They sing a nightmarish ballet, "Veruca's Nutcracker Sweet",Veruca's Nutcracker Sweet that concludes with Veruca and her father sent down the garbage chute; it has similar lyrics to the original book – although in the book version, both of Veruca parents follow her down the garbage chute.
Merriam-Webster states it is a "usually disparaging and obscene" term for a woman, and that it is an "offensive way to refer to a woman" in the United States. In American slang, the term can also be used to refer to "a fellow male homosexual one dislikes". An example of usage given by the dictionary is Australian scholar Emma Alice Jane describes how the term as used on modern social media is an example of what she calls "gendered vitriol", and an example of misogynistic e-bile. As a broader derogatory term, it is comparable to prick and means "a fool, a dolt, an unpleasant person – of either sex".
Harding, true to his legendary endurance and willingness to find new partners, "continued", as he later put it, "with whatever 'qualified' climbers I could con into this rather unpromising venture." Feuerer stayed on as technical advisor, even constructing a bicycle wheeled cart which could be hauled up to the half-way ledge which bears his name today, "Dolt Tower"; but Wayne Merry, George Whitmore, and Rich Calderwood now became the main team, with Merry sharing lead chores with Harding. In the fall, two more pushes got them to the level. Finally, a fourth push starting in the late fall would likely be the last.
In November 1661, following the Restoration of the monarchy, he was commissioned Vice Admiral and Commander in Chief in the Narrow Seas, and Captain of and commander of the Fleet taking the Earl of Peterborough to occupy English Tangier. This appears to have been his last active Commission. Before the voyage, he had been appointed Comptroller of the Navy. Samuel Pepys, who as Clerk of the Acts reported directly to Mennes, described him as "ill at ease" in this role (which in fairness to Mennes has been described as "impossibly burdensome") and when exasperated by Mennes' incompetence, as he all too frequently was, would refer to him in his Diary as a "coxcomb", "dolt", "dotard" and "old fool".
Film critic Roger Ebert thought De Niro gave a "marvelous performance, filled with urgency and restless desperation". Pauline Kael of The New York Times was equally impressed by De Niro, writing he is "a bravura actor, and those who have registered him only as the grinning, tobacco-chewing dolt of that hunk of inept whimsey Bang the Drum Slowly will be unprepared for his volatile performance. De Niro does something like what Dustin Hoffman was doing in Midnight Cowboy, but wilder; this kid doesn’t just act – he takes off into the vapors". In 1997, the film was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
In reviewing the first anime series, Stig Høgset of THEM Anime Reviews criticized Outer Moka to be ditzy and a "pink-haired dolt", with no attention to the usual vampire tropes such as exposure to sunlight, garlic and water, the last of which was explained that Moka is only vulnerable to pure water. However, he found her alternate personality to be "pretty damn badass" and "a great addition to the show", opining that he wished her backstory was explained better. Moka was elected by UGO Networks as the fortieth "sexiest vampire" of all media, with the staff commenting on her relationship with Tsukune. Lynzee Loveridge of Anime News Network listed Moka among her list of 7 Vampires That Don't Suck.
Medieval theorists of nobility relied on earlier classical concepts (Platonic, Aristotelian and Christian-Hellenistic) of what personal traits and virtues constitute grounds for ennoblement. In Plato's Republic, he provides for promotion and degradation of citizens according to a strict spiritual meritocracy. In the words of Will Durant, "If the ruler's son is a dolt he falls at the first shearing; if the boot-black's son is a man of ability the way is clear for him to become a guardian of the state" (Durant, The Story of Philosophy, 1961, p. 28). In medieval times, heraldic writers cited biblical examples to demonstrate that nobility is not just a matter of descent but of personal virtue: Shem, Ham and Japheth sprang from the same father, yet Ham was ignoble and King David rose from shepherd to become king through sheer faith and soldierly courage.
I feel kind to her whenever I think > of her...That other women, Fairfax, is a dolt- but I like Emma. Later reviewers or commenters on the novel include Charlotte Brontë, George Henry Lewes, Juliet Pollock, Anne Ritchie, Henry James, Reginald Farrer, Virginia Woolf, and E.M. Forster. Other reviewers include Thomas Babington Macauley who considered Austen to be a "Prose Shakespeare", and Margaret Oliphant who stated in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in March that she prefers Emma to Austen's other works and that it is "the work of her mature mind". Although Austen's Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of her novels, critics such as Robert McCrum suggest that "Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility"The 100 best novels: No 7 – Emma by Jane Austen (1816) The Guardian 4-Nov-2013]Susan Morgan.
51 ::... a scald trivial lying pamphlet called Greene's Groatsworth of Wit is given out to be of my doing. God never have care of my soul, but utterly renounce me, if the least word or syllable in it proceeded from my pen, or if I were any way privy to the writing or printing of it. I am grown at length to see into the vanity of the world more than ever I did, and now I condemn myself for nothing so much as playing the dolt in print. Nashe's character, "Pierce", occasionally has some harsh words for his unnamed fellow authors, which has led to speculation about who they might be. Nashe refers to them variously as sonnet-composing “upstarts”, who are not as well-born or as well educated as himself, who have little Latin, but who are enjoying popular success in the theatre.

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