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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

But no moment must be lost, for they had a Trouet to reckon with besides these addle-pated peasants.

From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Knowles, Mabel Winifred

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

There was some confusion, while Bill Saxby bawled at the seamen as addle-pated lubbers.

From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Schoonover, Frank Earle




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