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
Do the addle-headed creatures suppose, that the smallest event is not subservient as a link to the necessity of eternal laws?
From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Thirlwall, Connop
I was quite addle-headed for the time being, and think an amateur or so would revive me.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina
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
