dottiness
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For another thing, her mother is played by Jane Krakowski, with a dottiness that can curdle into malice, as she badgers her older daughter about getting married and moving out.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2019
For Graham the area of dottiness is, perhaps predictably, the self-same one that motivated him to run.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 21, 2015
So a ticking clock inspires “The Pit and the Pendulum,” a once beloved pet becomes the horror of “The Black Cat,” his foster mother’s dottiness calls forth “The Imp of the Perverse.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2015
Leo Nucci sang Nabucco with the quiet dignity of the ageing man he portrays, Lear-like in his descent into dottiness.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2013
"Why should all England have gone dotty on the mere subject of dottiness?"
From The Ball and the Cross by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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