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

Several former military men who served along the DMZ in Viet Nam are already looking forward to a return to the fascinating twilight world of "dipsy doodle" radar scans and "big bird" spy satellites.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

She shifts through patterns of intricately sliding rhythms with synchromesh precision, embellishing phrases with improvised dipsy doodles that make each song uniquely Warwick.

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