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
Will the addle-pated wight have the grace to sheer off?
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
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
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
