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
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
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
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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