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 missing articles were, I believe, finally discovered and routed out of an unoccupied bed, where they had been laid and forgotten by the addle-pated lady, and peace reigned.
From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.
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)
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
