addle-headed
Example Sentences
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Before assuring his actors that they are addle-headed and incompetent, he removes his checked coat, folds it carefully and throws it on the ground.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You know he has nothing to recommend him but money and a ridiculous roll of addle-headed predecessors; now, don’t you?”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
But the addle-headed police, ready to handcuff David Hume, never thought of inquiring about strangers who came and went at Stowmarket in those days.
From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy
"He's not worth the trouble you take for him—the addle-headed, ill-tempered coxcomb," said Mark.
From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley
The poor spiritless addle-headed ghost that has hitherto haunted our blue chambers is of no use to us.
From The Angel and the Author, and others by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
