addle-pated
Example Sentences
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Yet Wodehouse's absurd caricatures always made sense in their own addle-pated terms, and underlying each of the master's farces was the coherent comic statement that blithering idiocy was the finest bulwark of the Empire.
From Time Magazine Archive
He helps to explain matters to the addle-pated police.
From Time Magazine Archive
The addle-pated don did not know enough to send us packing the shortest way out of the country, to the Red River,—which, it seems, lies far to the eastward, in the Comanche nation.
From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames
This was too unlike Adelaïde to be true; but I tried to swallow my vexation in silence, and with difficulty restrained myself from insulting the addle-pated young puppy.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 by Various
It was universally regarded as a most addle-pated, imbecile affair from beginning to end.
From Hillsboro People by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
