addle-headed
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Before assuring his actors that they are addle-headed and incompetent, he removes his checked coat, folds it carefully and throws it on the ground.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You know he has nothing to recommend him but money and a ridiculous roll of addle-headed predecessors; now, don’t you?”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Five or six addle-headed schemes for getting rid of your money, and about as many bucket shop prospectuses.”
From Jacob's Ladder by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Michael Rust knows too much to trust that addle-headed fool.’
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various
"He's no worse than many others, and the people of this State and city are, after all, only a little more addle-headed than other Americans."
From The Octopus : A story of California by Frank Norris
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