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
I dodder down to the station with Mom as if I’m eighty-nine.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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
So there he dodders; too cowardly to fly in the face of superstition.
From The Adventures of Kathlyn by Harold MacGrath
There are several kinds of dodders: some live entirely on flax, some on nettles, but those that stick to clover and furze-bushes are the most common in this country.
From Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. by Caroline Hadley
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
He had evolved the condition to drive home and clinch the ridiculous impossibility of the other's suit, and here he was, the doddered fule, taking hope!
From Quaint Courtships by William Dean Howells
The interview is utterly anodyne, a doddering exchange of pleasantries and carefully selected humanizing anecdotes.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025
The majority of Carvey's recent "Saturday Night Live" appearances showed off his doddering and bewildered take on Joe Biden.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2024
Morton brings a refreshing comic spryness to Lear, playing him not as a doddering old man but as a vivacious, scampering jokester who expects to be treated as the life of the party.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2022
It is still, depending on your preferences, a doddering throwback or an oasis of old-school rationality and calm.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2022
I thought of the doddering old war veterans who sat along the gallery in front of the cotton gin and spat their tobacco and bored everybody with the same stories they’d been telling for decades.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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