addle-pated
Example Sentences
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Yet Wodehouse's absurd caricatures always made sense in their own addle-pated terms, and underlying each of the master's farces was the coherent comic statement that blithering idiocy was the finest bulwark of the Empire.
From Time Magazine Archive
He helps to explain matters to the addle-pated police.
From Time Magazine Archive
Do you take me for an addle-pated idiot?
From Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
The Cornwall Press describes his rival as "an addle-pated upstart—a superannuated Zany."
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
There was some confusion, while Bill Saxby bawled at the seamen as addle-pated lubbers.
From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Frank Earle Schoonover
