dotard
noun
a person exhibiting a decline in mental faculties, especially as a result of aging.
dotards
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pluralof dotard.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Skinner's big fresh idea results in the retention of dotards; in a picture feeble, mild as goose milk.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Premier Blum next day entered the Senatorial Bastille, all his bridges had been burned by the "dotards" demonstration of the afternoon before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Children are not childish all through any more than dotards are dotards all through.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some 20 minutes later the two dotards, traveling at their turtle pace, reached the 18th green, approached the greenskeeper.
From Time Magazine Archive
These men were fools, as they were poets; and dotards, as they were philosophers; full of folly, as they were of philosophy.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
