addle-pated
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He helps to explain matters to the addle-pated police.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Grandma Barclay above stairs has her opinion of it, and wonders how girls can be so addle-pated.
From A Certain Rich Man by White, William Allen
And of all men in the world, that addle-pated Canon Fell must be here, when you came, seeking a friend in need!
From The MS. in a Red Box by Hamilton, John Arthur
Verily, thou art born to be a shield to addle-pated Ralph.
From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)
