doddering

Example Sentences

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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

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

One afternoon in early April, Smith and Howard discovered Grog, Seabiscuit’s old stable pal in the Fitzsimmons barn, doddering along in a claiming race at Tanforan.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand