addle-pated
Example Sentences
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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
Tillie was a queer, addle-pated thing, as flighty as a girl at thirty-five, and overweeningly fond of gay clothes—which taste, as Mrs. Kronborg philosophically said, did nobody any harm.
From The Song of the Lark by Cather, Willa Sibert
Do you take me for an addle-pated idiot?
From Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)
What was the matter with the addle-pated things, anyway?
From The Destroying Angel by Vance, Louis Joseph
