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 and mistletoes rob juices from the stem and branches of their unfortunate hosts; more numerous still are the unbidden guests that fasten themselves upon the roots of their prey.
From Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer by Iles, George
Like the majority of dodders, this species is an annual, so that, as soon as the cycle of vegetation is accomplished, the plant dies after flowering and fruiting.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various
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
"I'm too old," he said, gathering up the broken bits, "my chances are gone," and he doddered out the door.
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
The interview is utterly anodyne, a doddering exchange of pleasantries and carefully selected humanizing anecdotes.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025
Phil Hartman as both the doddering old man and the mastermind of the Iran-Contra plan is perfect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
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
Like the women, Steve seems doddering, confused, and older than his age: forgetting his wallet, unable to find Miranda in a public place.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2022
Theon did not fear a doddering old man, but those watching archers and that line of knights were a different matter.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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