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
There have been more addle-pated statesmen and politicians in England since smoking became a daily necessity with, them than were ever known before.
From God's Good Man by Corelli, Marie
Verily, thou art born to be a shield to addle-pated Ralph.
From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)
Do you take me for an addle-pated idiot?
From Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)
