addle-headed
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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
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“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
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I was quite addle-headed for the time being, and think an amateur or so would revive me.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina
The people were far too addle-headed, even for him. . . .
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John
It's my opinion he's got that cough wi' sittin i' wet shoes and stockins; an' that Mrs. Wagstaff's a poor addle-headed thing; she doesn't half tek care on him.'
From Scenes of Clerical Life by Eliot, George