- present participle of dodder.
doddering
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“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
Offstage, he was a doddering, stammering dad shuffling around rooms bustling with yapping tiny dogs urinating everywhere.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2025
Let Silicon Valley chase a sleek future of frictionless rectangles and orbs: Brian’s creation, Charles, is a towering, homemade shambles with gray hair and a doddering shuffle that gives the impression of a retired sheepherder.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 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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