dodder
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The supporting cast gets to dodder about as magnified versions of Ibsen’s melodramatic figures, with Jamie Smithson a particular hoot as Hedda’s Olympian-grade nerd of a husband.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2019
And there are the plants that have strayed from their photosynthetic ways and turned to the dark side — the parasites, such as Cuscuta, or dodder.
From Nature ● Feb. 28, 2017
Note that the vines of the dodder, which has white flowers, are beige.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Lithgow's Tobias is content to dodder on the margins, but when he's forced by Agnes to assume responsibility as head of the house, he summons the necessary strength.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2014
Timothy panted, “D’eye! We can relax a bit till dodder side 0 d’tempis’ hit us.”
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
Scott Ward Abernethy is obviously having a blast channeling Audrey’s sadistic-dentist boyfriend, as well as assorted cameo figures, and Robert John Biedermann dodders aptly as the shop’s cantankerous owner, Mr. Mushnik.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019
But now and then, when she fleetingly dodders, or loses her train of thought, she becomes a poignant figure.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2017
As he dodders round his ex-wife's kitchen in west London, I wonder what that young self would have made of the man he is today.
From The Guardian ● May 21, 2010
The dodders, then, are essentially parasites, and their apparent simplicity gives them a very peculiar aspect.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various
As their cousins the morning glories are to this day, the dodders in their first estate were true climbers.
From Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer by Iles, George
Mr. Mueller only doddered around painfully and failed to satisfy Mr. Cohen.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2019
Her old coot of a husband doddered over to see what the trouble was.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018
Dominic Cavendish of the Telegraph wrote that the Pythons "came, they doddered, but they conquered."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2014
Then he doddered on across the moat of the partly burned Palace to bow low before Emperor Hirohito and make a respectful report.
From Time Magazine Archive
The green glades in the autumnal woods were inviting, and sometimes they stood before the vast form of some doddered oak.
From Endymion by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
“Things were set up to portray him in the worst light possible … he’s been portrayed as a bigot. He’s been portrayed as doddering and demented, which couldn’t be further from the truth,” Posner said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
The interview is utterly anodyne, a doddering exchange of pleasantries and carefully selected humanizing anecdotes.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025
Whereas he once presented himself as a vain peacock, Clay here comes off as spacey and a bit doddering, swaddled in scarves and wide sunglasses and outfits Susie Essman might wear on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
He portrays himself as a doddering old man who is both daunted by his own disorganization and too dimwitted to understand this whole "subpoena" business.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2023
The Marquess of Tilbury’s doddering hand rose to his pocket handkerchief.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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