doltish


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Related to doltish: idiotic, inadvertently, dullard
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heavy and dull and stupid

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It's a message that Ella learns as a child and holds dear as things worsen under the rule of her spiteful stepmother (Cate Blanchett) and vain, doltish stepsisters (Holliday Grainger and Sophie McShera).
Nonetheless, Smokov has demonstrated that Curry was a shrewd robber and not the doltish follower of more-celebrated bandits.
Peabody treating doltish schoolboy Sherman more like a pet than a son, it wasn't a setup played for emotional truth.
Ferrell – who plays doltish TV presenter Ron Burgundy in Anchorman – admits he was thrilled and nervous about working with one of his big–screen heroes.
Explaining her numerous tattoos in one episode, she tells said doltish boyfriend that she got them because she had gained weight and needed to regain a sense of control over her own body.
It's got no bleedin' ears!" Chapter 5 Ozzy, that foolish friend of mine, has another doltish idea.
It's reminiscent of the moment Cabinet ministers who've been caught playing away ask their poor, doltish wives to pose in a sensible skirt at the garden gate.
Offers are reportedly flooding in while that unspeakably doltish dad, wearing a devil mask, referred questioners to ace publicist Max Clifford.
Instead Bush's administrative response was as ill considered as his initial rhetoric - which also included the doltish and insensitive reference to a "crusade".
However, she is willing to grudgingly concede that there are large numbers of deluded and doltish people out there who may think the little green balls of veg are vile.
"I don't understand it, it was all me in a former day," he says of the ease in which he slipped into being his doltish character.
The Saudi paper called Clinton's nuclear threat "the foreign politics of the madhouse," saying, "it demonstrates the same doltish ignorance that has distinguished Bush's foreign relations."
That doltish behavior aside, doesn't Obama realize that the "mistake" he proposes to eliminate would be his own grandchild?