And if we persist in our doltishness, he may just give us all the finger, or brush us off his shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Camp: Hillary Complained About Rough Debate Treatment, Too] Reference
To be phlegmatic denotes a slow, stolid temperament: in some people an enlightened temperance, in others mere doltishness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference
His politics are vaguely conservative, but basic doltishness, rather than opportunistic inconsistency, is their great failing – as when he urges a politician friend to present himself to poorer constituents as "an ambassador from the nation of learning.". From Wordnik.com. [Capital Pundits Parodied: An Anti-Mensch's Faux Memoirs] Reference
His selection of Holmes over Mediate is only the latest example of his doltishness. From Wordnik.com. [GeoffShackelford.com] Reference
With incredible doltishness they had also left the chairs and spikes beside the track. From Wordnik.com. [Our March to Washington] Reference
Forget "Network" - this is "Idiocracy", the cult film by Mike Judge that charts the descent of the American intellect to a level of nationwide doltishness. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Unfortunately, Duvall's doltishness reflects on the entire Legislature, and it shouldn't, no more than all the philandering and boozing -- and that end-of-session party -- reflected on the 1963 Legislature. From Wordnik.com. [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference
Or, should we condone them for their puerile doltishness in masterminding the biggest hoax ever - pressing and pushing 'good causes' until these causes 'effecting' or 'materializing' an end with such disastrous consequences?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
And, in any event, superlatives shouldn't be exhausted in the more pedestrian matters of public life, for you will be left speechless, or at least scrambling for a thesaurus, when doltishness prevails higher up the ladder, like the two-year-old worksite that was once the Brian Lara Recreation Ground up in Cantaro. From Wordnik.com. [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference
These are fields in which something may always be found by the gleaner, and therefore those general collections in which the works are curtailed would be to be reprobated, even if epitomisers did not seem to possess a certain instinct of generic doltishness which leads them curiously to omit whatever ought especially to be preserved. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society] Reference
Dorian doltishness and immobility, after a ten days’ delay and excuses that “they must celebrate their festival the Hyacinthia,” the ephors called forth their whole levy. From Wordnik.com. [A Victor of Salamis] Reference
Which is exactly what’s going to happen in Iraq, because of the stupidity and doltishness of American conservatives, who persist in making this exact same mistake, over and over again. brooksfoe Says. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Stabbing and Backs] Reference
Out of sheer doltishness, in my case. From Wordnik.com. [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference
Posted by: muffy at May 02, 2009 10: 51 AM (zplc6) 10 @5 - so the media is now defining earnest moronic doltishness as "swagga" now?. From Wordnik.com. [Ace of Spades HQ] Reference
"Stop that doltishness!". From Wordnik.com. [Night Arrant]
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