addled
Example Sentences
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Los Angeles and Tucson, Ariz. Despite many close friendships, especially with women, he was at heart a loner, conditioned, possibly, by clinical depression, for which he sought electroshock therapy even though it addled his brain.
We should not seek ethical guidance from addled entertainers, but we can find insights into our temporal and spiritual condition.
Some people might think a half name would make a person addled in the brain or even dangerous.
From Literature
“That location is Salieri’s increasingly addled brain and what happens within that brain strikes me as eminently contemporary.”
From Los Angeles Times
Only one scene really has an impact: Ben runs into a nerd-revolutionary, adorably played by Michael Cera, who seems like a little brother of Leonardo DiCaprio’s addled old radical in “One Battle After Another.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
