addle-headed

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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

Being a water-drinker at home, from motives of prudence, not to say necessity, it did not require much in the way of stimulus to render poor little Joel addle-headed.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

The futility of this campaign of murder is typified by making Von Tirpitz, its inventor, an addle-headed seahorse, the nursery comedian of the sea.

From Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers by Raemaekers, Louis

I am not as a rule addle-headed; his influence must have affected me.

From Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)