How to Use dorky in a Sentence

dorky

adjective
  • These two are both have a bit of a dorky side, in the best way possible.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 22 Nov. 2019
  • These two both have a bit of a dorky side but in the best way possible.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 16 June 2022
  • These two both have a bit of a dorky side, but in the best way possible.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 2 Sep. 2020
  • The iA, Scion's first four-door sedan, reminds you of a barstool with a dorky cartoon fish on top.
    — Sam Smith, Wired News, 8 Apr. 2015
  • This sketch, in which Lisa and Todd go to prom, is just everything that's great about the Nerds, from their equally dorky parents to the ridiculous prom get ups.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2016
  • The newest $249 Pro edition, improves on the original with better sound, enhanced fit in the ear and a less dorky look.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2019
  • Whatever the case, here are a few suggestions for treating your dorky lover.
    — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2018
  • There’s some really smart people out there, and great and funny [people], and sort of a little bit dorky like me.
    — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Here’s how to rock the red, white, and blue this Fourth of July without any of the cornball risks or dorky potential for disaster.
    — Yang-Yi Goh, GQ, 3 July 2018
  • As far as dorky corporate shticks are concerned, at least this one has the potential to briefly flash the discourse back to a simpler time.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The unashamedly dorky masterpieces, the schlocky radio hits, the hidden gems and the screaming matches about what their third-best album is.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
  • These are the smoother, romantic, and dorky songs that make an artist of Drake's status feel suddenly real.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 19 Mar. 2017
  • The dorky, tragedy-blind campaign contrasts with the terror everyone still carries about post-squid New York.
    — Jamie Fisher, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2021
  • There’s suspense, corporate intrigue, daring hijinks and a dorky guy with a crush on a girl.
    — cleveland, 5 Aug. 2021
  • And however classic and adaptable, something about the shoe has always been slightly dorky to me.
    — Julian Randall, Essence, 6 June 2024
  • Avatar: The Way of Water is both more extravagant and dorkier than Avatar, which was pretty dorky to begin with.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Admittedly, their dorky little fist bump is kind of cute.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
  • In this team game, one player wears dorky glasses with an erasable marker attached and tries to draw objects that her teammates can guess.
    — Marylou Tousignant, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Tall and lanky, with long hair and an endearingly dorky air about him, this guy doesn’t exactly fit the profile of someone who will hurt her.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
  • With Alex's slightly dorky guidance, the teens forge a new alliance to figure out what exactly Pride has been doing all these years.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2017
  • Ferrell starred in the comedic version of the tale as Melinda's earnest and unabashedly dorky love interest, Hobie.
    — EW.com, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The result, as Pickman accurately points out, was that endurance road rigs always had a dorky rep as an old man’s bike.
    — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Described as your dorky next door neighbor who grew up to be hot but couldn’t shake being a dork, Daniel is an investigator at Jax’s law firm.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 Nov. 2021
  • As designers and fashion-minded young guys embrace dorky dad style, the men who invented the look are leaving it behind.
    — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Their targets are diverse, running the gamut from earnestly dorky teen love stories and picture books about penguins to Pulitzer-winning works of fiction.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Camila Mendes dressed up as the dorky and ever-lovable Mary Sanderson, piling her dark hair into a sky-high point on top of her head with little purple curls peeking out.
    — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 31 Oct. 2022
  • That Leonard is better suited to Sandra seems obvious until Michelle takes him out for the night, and this shlumpy, melancholic man dives onto the dance floor to show off some dorky but ambitious moves.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
  • But, more important, Cameron hasn’t lost the ability to convey his dorky-sweet enthusiasm to the audience.
    — Vulture, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Cutting the frames off would leave the windows unsupported, but leaving the window frames in their entirety would look extremely dorky.
    — Barry Winfield, Car and Driver, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Here, telegraphed loud and clear in the first 30 seconds of class, was Everett-Kennedy’s teaching brand: endearingly dorky enthusiast.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2021

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