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
An’ d’ye think we’re goin’ to believe any addle-pated scalliwag such as my Hervey, agin’ you?
From The Hound From The North by Bull, Charles Livingston
Thea, however, had one in the person of her addle-pated aunt, Tillie Kronborg.
From The Song of the Lark by Cather, Willa Sibert
A rather addle-pated man has for some years been paying large sums to a correspondent, a woman as he believes, who has been painting his portrait again and again from photographs he has sent her.
From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce
