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dotard /ˈdəʊtəd /nounAn old person, especially one who has become weak or senile.Which, unfortunately, the wilting dotards are too frightened to do themselves....- 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.
- In Laputa Gulliver finds the wise men so wrapped up in their speculations as to be utter dotards in practical affairs.
Origin Late Middle English: from dote + -ard. |