addle-headed
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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
"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 now comes the nicety of the law; the law is as nice as a new-laid egg, and not to be understood by addle-headed people.
From A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 by Katherine Cecil Thurston
What hope is there left for mankind as long as addle-headed, honest men see naught but justice in whatever order they receive?
From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
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