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
"He's not worth the trouble you take for him—the addle-headed, ill-tempered coxcomb," said Mark.
From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Kingsley, Charles
Michael Rust knows too much to trust that addle-headed fool.’
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various
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)
