How to Use dorky in a Sentence

dorky

adjective
  • Phoenix is cast against type as the dorky kid.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025
  • These two both have a bit of a dorky side but in the best way possible.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 22 Nov. 2019
  • 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, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Sporty sunglasses used to be dorky.
    — Amelia Arvesen, Outside, 19 Feb. 2026
  • What harm could two dorky middle-aged women possibly cause?
    — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
  • Whatever the case, here are a few suggestions for treating your dorky lover.
    — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • There’s suspense, corporate intrigue, daring hijinks and a dorky guy with a crush on a girl.
    — cleveland, 5 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • And however classic and adaptable, something about the shoe has always been slightly dorky to me.
    — Julian Randall, Essence, 6 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ben and Jaime are forced to steal a dorky, cherry red tandem bicycle, not a fancy automobile.
    — Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Not too long ago, the analytics department was the domain of the dorky nerds of the NFL.
    — Dianna Russini, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Prepare for an extremely dorky confession.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Scott has not much to do as the cheerfully dorky dad who takes to Seattle like a duck to water, but his very uselessness is part of the joke and then part of the plot.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Every character has an adorable quirk or two, or at minimum owns a dorky T-shirt with a periodic table joke or a cartoon cat.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ferrell starred in the comedic version of the tale as Melinda's earnest and unabashedly dorky love interest, Hobie.
    — EW.com, 30 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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