addle-pated
Example Sentences
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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
He helps to explain matters to the addle-pated police.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was universally regarded as a most addle-pated, imbecile affair from beginning to end.
From Hillsboro People by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
He gets more addle-pated every day he lives, I do believe,' muttered Jonas, shaking his honoured parent roundly.
From Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Charles
There was some confusion, while Bill Saxby bawled at the seamen as addle-pated lubbers.
From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Schoonover, Frank Earle
