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
But the addle-headed police, ready to handcuff David Hume, never thought of inquiring about strangers who came and went at Stowmarket in those days.
From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Tracy, Louis
Do the addle-headed creatures suppose, that the smallest event is not subservient as a link to the necessity of eternal laws?
From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Thirlwall, Connop
Once the ice was broken, nearly all had something to say about it, and very nearly as many addle-headed opinions were ventilated as at a Colney Hatch debating society.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Bullen, Frank T.
