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
The addle-pated don did not know enough to send us packing the shortest way out of the country, to the Red River,—which, it seems, lies far to the eastward, in the Comanche nation.
From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames
There have been more addle-pated statesmen and politicians in England since smoking became a daily necessity with, them than were ever known before.
From God's Good Man by Corelli, Marie
The fact was that there may have been an addle-pated Red among the mill hands of that time, but if there was I had never met him.
From The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it by Davis, James J. (James John)
