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addled

adjective as in confused

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Untold thousands of pain-addled patients had become hooked on what opioids provided, as had many young people who’d begun experimenting with the pills recreationally.

From Time

So instead I cracked the window, lit another one of the cigarettes I was too young to legally purchase, and surrendered to a driver who made even the most addled yellow cab driver seem like a somnolent senior in comparison.

These bicyclists can unsettle the pedestrians—who, while watching for drivers, must also contend with the addled cyclists who are variously occupying their crosswalk—or even using the streetscape as a racecourse.

Even his addled brain comprehends that only one other creature on Earth understands his true nature.

From Time

Even as Tenev wrangles toddlers at home, he’ll need to bring discipline to a company prone to behaving like a hormone-addled teenager.

From Fortune

It finally looks like New York, which is perpetually addled by traffic, will be constructing a new expressway.

Iggy's relatively mature response to this drug-addled drivel?

People worked all hours, often addled with booze and drugs, and casual sex was readily available.

Similarly irresistible to newscasters was the notion of drug-addled newborns—and warnings of a “crack baby” epidemic.

The context of you being a mixed-up, hormone-addled seventh-grader when you read it, alone in your bedroom.

But Colonel L'Estrange, who had been there about a fortnight before, found two addled eggs, but saw no birds.

I know ye make a dandy good district marshal, but ye are slippin'—goin' addled 'bout this funeral business.

His brain must be addled by having had too much to drink this morning.

Come, tell me in what decent tavern you have addled your brain?

Now in my poor addled brain I had an idea you were engaged for to-night at your aunt's, Lady Blackfriars'.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to addled, such as: befuddled, bewildered, gone, rattled, shaken, and shook.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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