dotty
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Lise has run-ins with other passengers aboard her flight and, once at her destination, befriends a bumbling, dotty widow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Then, in 2024, he had to have the dotty idea to throw himself into contention for the vice presidency.
From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2026
"If you see someone on the M40 looking particularly dotty," she told a surprised reporter, "it's me trying to rap in the car going home."
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
Versatile and assured, Sternhagen played women who were folksy, regal, plain-spoken and glamorous, although she had a special fondness for dotty eccentrics and snobby patricians.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
We like to regard the olfactory bulb as a sort of archeologic find, and we speak of the ancient olfactory parts of the brain as though they were elderly, dotty relatives in need of hobbies.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
He has, however, replaced it with one that is, if anything, even dottier.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2011
The whole idea – driven, apparently, by the need to get more southern bums on northern seats to fulfil contract pledges – couldn't be dottier.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 24, 2010
When Heartbreak House was presented last week under Welles's direction and with himself in the leading role of 88-year-old Captain Shotover, even the dottiest Mercury fan could not help having qualms.
From Time Magazine Archive
