Sentence examples for dork from inspiring English sources

"dork" is an acceptable word in written English.
It is used to describe an awkwardly nerdy or socially inept person, and can be used as either an affectionate term or an insult. For example, "My sister is such a dork - she can recite the entire Star Wars script!".

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dork

noun

A penis.

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There is an accepted drum-circle etiquette ("Leave rhythmical space for other people to express themselves") and terminology ("percussion puppies" should not tease a "rhythm dork"), all laid out in Mr Hull's book, "Drum Circle Spirit".

He looks like too much of a dork.

Today, Lemmings, is a good day to be alive (providing you happen to be a politics dork with a predilection for mid-term ballots).

The Labour verdict omitted the findings of focus groups conducted for its inquiry, which I revealed last October: swing voters saw Mr Miliband as unfit to be prime minister, describing him as "weak and bumbling", "a dork" and "having the appeal of a potato".

However, she later admitted to regretting her philately habit confession as "everyone started calling me a dork".

One of the coming bands of this year, for instance, are Johannesburg's Blk Jks, whose style choices include the global scenester's familiar Elvis Costello "dork" glasses, 1970s ski vests, vintage Nikes and, yes, skinny jeans.

To Oliver's concern, Jill is taking an interest in her ex-beau Graham Paddy Considinee), a strutting dork of a New Age guru.

But the usually compelling DiCaprio never comes into focus as Gatsby – one minute the suave châtelain, the next manically yelling his biography, then suddenly a confused dork in a too-farcical tea-party reunion with Daisy.

I regret to report that this trend is now bucked  by Loserville, a new show by Elliot Davis and James Bourne which derives (for five of its songs) from the latter's 2005 album Welcome to Loserville which he created with his post-Busted pop-punk band, Son of Dork.

"Perhaps that was when my independent spirit was born," said Sidibe, who described herself as "kind of a dork".

Everyone laughs when he arrives — dressed like a dork, of course, because he is a dork.

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