addlepated
Example Sentences
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Guinness is loftily addlepated as a Royal Navy captain whose stomach is so queasy that he tosses his tiffin whenever he sights open water, even in a fish bowl.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Artist Marc Rosenthal's cartoons have the cheerful, addlepated look of a comics page from 60 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Dear Mom recounts the adventures of an addlepated rookie named Homer Stubbs, and his highborn pal Red Foster, son of a factory owner, who helps him badger a tough top-sergeant called Monihan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Government, alarmed by the draft's showing�that half the nation's young men are ill-toothed, nearsighted, addlepated or otherwise unfit�last week took steps to improve the physique of U.S. manhood.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The blow made me addlepated and weakened my knees.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.