addle-pated
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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
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He helps to explain matters to the addle-pated police.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Thea, however, had one in the person of her addle-pated aunt, Tillie Kronborg.
From The Song of the Lark by Cather, Willa Sibert
Of all the idiots," said the boy—"of all the miserable, shortsighted, thick-headed, addle-pated duffers and asses we are the worst!
From In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Glanville, Ernest
What was the matter with the addle-pated things, anyway?
From The Destroying Angel by Vance, Louis Joseph