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Recent Examples of dotard
Madman, rogue, gangster, frightened barking dog, dotard, rocket man, little rocket man -- the criticism of course by the American media was relentless.
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Fox News,
10 Mar. 2018
All the fighters at work achieve the everyday goal by over 200% with hearts to kill dotard Trump by cutting and tearing apart his body and cutting his head off!
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Will Ripley and Tim Schwarz,
CNN,
26 Oct. 2017
Fox News and Breitbart built media empires dedicated to dotards.
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Michael Harriot,
The Root,
6 Oct. 2017
Stay above the snakeline, and don’t call anyone a dotard because Kim’s lawyers are on speed-dial and those stubby fingers can really move, folks.
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Charles P. Pierce,
Esquire,
22 Sep. 2017
Fox News,
10 Mar. 2018
All the fighters at work achieve the everyday goal by over 200% with hearts to kill dotard Trump by cutting and tearing apart his body and cutting his head off!
—
Will Ripley and Tim Schwarz,
CNN,
26 Oct. 2017
Fox News and Breitbart built media empires dedicated to dotards.
—
Michael Harriot,
The Root,
6 Oct. 2017
Stay above the snakeline, and don’t call anyone a dotard because Kim’s lawyers are on speed-dial and those stubby fingers can really move, folks.
—
Charles P. Pierce,
Esquire,
22 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dotard
Noun
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Enough with the oldsters, what about those kids?
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With each passing day, its oldster cast — including Alfred Molina, Alfre Woodard, and Geena Davis — is closer to the grave.
Noun
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Now, thanks entirely to Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the scales are tipping back towards the geriatrics.
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Raya Elfadel Kheirbek is a professor of medicine and chief of the division of palliative medicine and geriatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
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The exhibit features several dozen dinosaur animatronics that fully loom and roar, and a virtual aquarium stocked with swimming ancients.
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Sitting alone among these ancients can be a profound experience.
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The show’s underpinned by the differences in character and country of Lady Cora and her formidable mother-in-law, the dowager Countess Violet Crawley, played by the equally formidable and much missed Dame Maggie Smith.
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The empress dowager’s legacy Empress Dowager Ling was largely unsuccessful in her bid for power.
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Designed with the needs of senior dogs in mind, this recipe helps keep beloved old-timers going strong.
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Cap Conover was an old-timer, having come from Wisconsin 20 years before to settle into a life of trapping on the river.
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Like many nations, China is facing a generational challenge in the form of 118 million empty-nest senior citizens who might not mind someone’s company—even if that someone periodically receives over-the-air updates.
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The Abrahamsons are hoping to be among the millions of senior citizens who will become eligible to obtain weight loss drugs through Medicare for the first time in the program’s history.
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While choosing the layout, the tribe hosted listening sessions with community members and elders.
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More important for the purposes of the Social Media Minimum Age’s failure is that Aussie youth undeniably know technology better than do their elders in Parliament.
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“Dotard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dotard. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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