addle-brained

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A third vexation: Sebastian, one of the instructors, is making a fool of himself with the old scientist's somewhat addle-brained granddaughter.

From Time Magazine Archive

All these things, in the words of the catechism, "I steadfastly believe," until I become a mere driveller, a moonstruck, babbling, staring, credulous, imbecile, greedy, gaping, wooden-headed, addle-brained, wool-gathering, dreary, vacant, obstinate civilian.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina

Was there a young girl among them, dark and good-looking, whose name began—" "The one my addle-brained young nephew has been pestering me about?

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

"What an idiot I was to begin all this—to think I could win with no weapons and no aid except a half-mad fisherman, an addle-brained imbecile, a confidence man—" "And a woman," supplemented Cherry.

From The Silver Horde by Beach, Rex Ellingwood