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

I'm her clever uncle Tom; and you're her addle-headed aunt Julia.

From No Name by Collins, Wilkie

But there's Mills, now, sits i' the chimney-corner and reads the paper pretty nigh from morning to night, and when he's got to th' end on't he's more addle-headed than he was at the beginning.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George

I was quite addle-headed for the time being, and think an amateur or so would revive me.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina