Examples from literature

• From a dolt he had become a hero. 
• He was a dolt who confused genuine passion with the milder preferences of callow youth. 
• That smile meant to say: 'How stupid, what a ninny, what a dolt, what a donkey you are, to have sat there on your seat like a post all night! 
• There he gently cursed himself for a fool, a dolt, an idiot. 
• When we came to pay our bill, the dolt of a husband took the money and put it in his pocket.