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Definition of dotard in English: dotardnounˈdəʊtədˈdoʊdərd An old person, especially one who has become physically weak or whose mental faculties have declined. Example sentencesExamples - Which, unfortunately, the wilting dotards are too frightened to do themselves.
- But his would-be debonair, self-satisfied yet insecure dotard could not be more appropriately laughable or pitiful.
- He wants to reform the impossibly cliquey party, long ruled by smug dotards who have turned political nest-feathering into a national art-form to rival ikebana and origami.
- Some people, including some opponents, seem to feel that this malevolent dotard was, somewhere, innocent of proper thought and responsibility.
- In Laputa Gulliver finds the wise men so wrapped up in their speculations as to be utter dotards in practical affairs.
Synonyms retired person, pensioner, old-age pensioner, oap
Origin Late Middle English: from dote + -ard. Definition of dotard in US English: dotardnounˈdoʊdərdˈdōdərd An old person, especially one who has become physically weak or whose mental faculties have declined. Example sentencesExamples - Which, unfortunately, the wilting dotards are too frightened to do themselves.
- Some people, including some opponents, seem to feel that this malevolent dotard was, somewhere, innocent of proper thought and responsibility.
- He wants to reform the impossibly cliquey party, long ruled by smug dotards who have turned political nest-feathering into a national art-form to rival ikebana and origami.
- But his would-be debonair, self-satisfied yet insecure dotard could not be more appropriately laughable or pitiful.
- In Laputa Gulliver finds the wise men so wrapped up in their speculations as to be utter dotards in practical affairs.
Synonyms retired person, pensioner, old-age pensioner, oap
Origin Late Middle English: from dote + -ard. |