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
Thea, however, had one in the person of her addle-pated aunt, Tillie Kronborg.
From The Song of the Lark by Cather, Willa Sibert
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
But no moment must be lost, for they had a Trouet to reckon with besides these addle-pated peasants.
From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Knowles, Mabel Winifred
