addle-pated
Example Sentences
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He helps to explain matters to the addle-pated police.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Now the barber's wife had not mentioned anything in particular, and the barber was far too addle-pated to think of anything by himself, so he answered cautiously, 'Oh, something!'
From Tales of the Punjab by Steel, Flora Annie
Grandma Barclay above stairs has her opinion of it, and wonders how girls can be so addle-pated.
From A Certain Rich Man by White, William Allen
