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Before assuring his actors that they are addle-headed and incompetent, he removes his checked coat, folds it carefully and throws it on the ground.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You know he has nothing to recommend him but money and a ridiculous roll of addle-headed predecessors; now, don’t you?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

But the addle-headed police, ready to handcuff David Hume, never thought of inquiring about strangers who came and went at Stowmarket in those days.

From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Tracy, Louis

An addle-headed theorist, he was, till a woman got hold of him—one of the other kind, you know—and gave him something practical to think about.

From South Wind by Douglas, Norman

He is a true pioneer, and therefore he is not an idle man, nor a loafer, nor a weak addle-headed tippler.

From Minnesota and Dacotah by Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus)




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