addle-headed
Example Sentences
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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
Once the ice was broken, nearly all had something to say about it, and very nearly as many addle-headed opinions were ventilated as at a Colney Hatch debating society.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Bullen, Frank T.
What hope is there left for mankind as long as addle-headed, honest men see naught but justice in whatever order they receive?
From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)
He is a true pioneer, and therefore he is not an idle man, nor a loafer, nor a weak addle-headed tippler.
From Minnesota and Dacotah by Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus)
