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 am not as a rule addle-headed; his influence must have affected me.
From Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
"He's not worth the trouble you take for him—the addle-headed, ill-tempered coxcomb," said Mark.
From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley
What dullards, what fribbles, what addle-headed simple coxcombs!
From Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
