addle-headed

Example Sentences

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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

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

It's my opinion he's got that cough wi' sittin i' wet shoes and stockins; an' that Mrs. Wagstaff's a poor addle-headed thing; she doesn't half tek care on him.'

From Scenes of Clerical Life by Eliot, George

But there's Mills, now, sits i' the chimney-corner and reads the paper pretty nigh from morning to night, and when he's got to th' end on't he's more addle-headed than he was at the beginning.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George