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
“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
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
Michael Rust knows too much to trust that addle-headed fool.’
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various
Being a water-drinker at home, from motives of prudence, not to say necessity, it did not require much in the way of stimulus to render poor little Joel addle-headed.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
