dotard

noun

dot·​ard ˈdō-tərd How to pronounce dotard (audio)
: a person in his or her dotage

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But Biden did accomplish one thing, at least: Russia's pro-Kremlin media no longer views him as a dotard. Peter Weber, The Week, 17 June 2021 Zuckerberg continues to allow, for example, videos and photographs falsified by the Trump campaign to depict Joe Biden as a dotard. James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 22 Sep. 2020 Madman, rogue, gangster, frightened barking dog, dotard, rocket man, little rocket man -- the criticism of course by the American media was relentless. Fox News, 10 Mar. 2018 Donald Trump, a man who at various points in his presidency has resembled a toddler, a dotard and a weird combination of both, mostly colored within the lines today in Davos, Switzerland. Anne Branigin, The Root, 26 Jan. 2018 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 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 Gary Chryst, the most admired artist of the Joffrey Ballet of yore appearing with Ballet Theater as a guest, makes Dodon a rivetingly doting dotard. Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 7 June 2016

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of dotard was in the 14th century

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“Dotard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dotard. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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