addle-pated
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He helps to explain matters to the addle-pated police.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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They would declare of him that he was not a thief, only because he was so muddy-minded, so addle-pated as not to know the difference between meum and tuum!
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony
Thea, however, had one in the person of her addle-pated aunt, Tillie Kronborg.
From The Song of the Lark by Cather, Willa Sibert
Thought he knew himself to be muddy-minded and addle-pated, he could see that.
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony