dodder
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The supporting cast gets to dodder about as magnified versions of Ibsen’s melodramatic figures, with Jamie Smithson a particular hoot as Hedda’s Olympian-grade nerd of a husband.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2019
And there are the plants that have strayed from their photosynthetic ways and turned to the dark side — the parasites, such as Cuscuta, or dodder.
From Nature ● Feb. 28, 2017
Note that the vines of the dodder, which has white flowers, are beige.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Lithgow's Tobias is content to dodder on the margins, but when he's forced by Agnes to assume responsibility as head of the house, he summons the necessary strength.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2014
I dodder down to the station with Mom as if I’m eighty-nine.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
Scott Ward Abernethy is obviously having a blast channeling Audrey’s sadistic-dentist boyfriend, as well as assorted cameo figures, and Robert John Biedermann dodders aptly as the shop’s cantankerous owner, Mr. Mushnik.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019
But now and then, when she fleetingly dodders, or loses her train of thought, she becomes a poignant figure.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2017
As he dodders round his ex-wife's kitchen in west London, I wonder what that young self would have made of the man he is today.
From The Guardian ● May 21, 2010
So there he dodders; too cowardly to fly in the face of superstition.
From The Adventures of Kathlyn by Harold MacGrath
The dodders and mistletoes rob juices from the stem and branches of their unfortunate hosts; more numerous still are the unbidden guests that fasten themselves upon the roots of their prey.
From Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer by George Iles
Mr. Mueller only doddered around painfully and failed to satisfy Mr. Cohen.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2019
Her old coot of a husband doddered over to see what the trouble was.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018
Dominic Cavendish of the Telegraph wrote that the Pythons "came, they doddered, but they conquered."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2014
For nine days, the 61st Cannes Film festival had doddered along into a premature senility.
From Time Magazine Archive
For meate in this distance I had plum-porredge of purgations ministred mee one after another to clarifie my bloud, that it should not lye doddered in the flesh.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Edmund Gosse
The interview is utterly anodyne, a doddering exchange of pleasantries and carefully selected humanizing anecdotes.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025
Offstage, he was a doddering, stammering dad shuffling around rooms bustling with yapping tiny dogs urinating everywhere.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2025
Some aides, according to Axios, wish Mr. Biden would more often show this side of him to counter concerns that the 80-year-old is too doddering for office amid frequent oral gaffes.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
Whether Arkel is wise or a doddering old fool is a matter of question, which the veteran Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto answers with a loud affirmation of the latter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
I get up, sore all over, and start doddering barefoot for home.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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