stulty

English

Etymology

From Middle English stulty, probably from Latin stultus (foolish) + -y.

Adjective

stulty (comparative more stulty, superlative most stulty)

  1. (rare) Foolish; silly, stupid.
    • c. 1384, Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love:
      Shal fyre ben blamed for it brende a foole naturelly by his own stulty wytte in sterynge?
    • 2012, George R. R. Martin, Dreamsongs, volume 1, page 284:
      " [] I was a Jamie too, before that, and Port Jamison is a stulty, priggy town on a planet that's the same."
    • 2020, Robin Langstaff-French, Brothers, Lift Your Voices, page 180:
      Dearest, I love you. I miss you. I count the stulty moments, “creeping in their petty pace", till next I see and am with you... []

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