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
Why, look at William, now—the first time he axed me to marry him, I kept sayin' 'you're still slue-footed an' slack-kneed an' addle-headed an' I'll marry you whether or no.'
From The Miller Of Old Church by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
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)
The people were far too addle-headed, even for him. . . .
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John
