Doltishness | Word Doltishness at Open Dictionary of English by LearnThat Foundation

And if we persist in our doltishness, he may just give us all the finger, or brush us off his shoulder.
To be phlegmatic denotes a slow, stolid temperament: in some people an enlightened temperance, in others mere doltishness.
His politics are vaguely conservative, but basic doltishness, rather than opportunistic inconsistency, is their great failing – as when he urges a politician friend to...
His selection of Holmes over Mediate is only the latest example of his doltishness.

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