dipsy

Example Sentences

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It must be like the dipsy pater familias turning up to a family gathering where everyone knows he has frittered away their inheritance.

From The Guardian • Nov. 12, 2017

Alternating between poignance and dipsy mirth, this drama takes a 20/20 look at divorce, U.S. style.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even the smallest scene is memorable� like Beryl Reid's appearance as a dipsy researcher who fell from favor with Smiley and Control.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stephen Hanan makes him a dipsy old charmer who deplores the lack of discipline in modern actors: Now, these kittens, they do not get trained As we did in the days when Victoria reigned.

From Time Magazine Archive

I told Ez we’d ought to have fetched along a dipsy lead, then maybe we could get our bearin’s by soundin’s.

From Cap'n Warren's Wards by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby