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
Thea, however, had one in the person of her addle-pated aunt, Tillie Kronborg.
From The Song of the Lark by Cather, Willa Sibert
It was universally regarded as a most addle-pated, imbecile affair from beginning to end.
From Hillsboro People by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
The Cornwall Press describes his rival as "an addle-pated upstart—a superannuated Zany."
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by West, John
