dodder

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

Timothy panted, “D’eye! We can relax a bit till dodder side 0 d’tempis’ hit us.”

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor

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

As their cousins the morning glories are to this day, the dodders in their first estate were true climbers.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer by George Iles

"And still along that rocky coast, A gibbering yet a gallant ghost, He dodders, dodders at his post, Nor nears the goal; For she, the spook he cares for most, Still loves to troll."

From The Merryweathers by Julia Ward Richards

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

Then he doddered on across the moat of the partly burned Palace to bow low before Emperor Hirohito and make a respectful report.

From Time Magazine Archive

He found a charm in the spectral aspect of the doddered oak.

From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

The interview is utterly anodyne, a doddering exchange of pleasantries and carefully selected humanizing anecdotes.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025

The majority of Carvey's recent "Saturday Night Live" appearances showed off his doddering and bewildered take on Joe Biden.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2024

Attention must be paid to the core audience that has stuck it out and been filling these doddering old venues with their seasoned laughter and empathy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

Let Silicon Valley chase a sleek future of frictionless rectangles and orbs: Brian’s creation, Charles, is a towering, homemade shambles with gray hair and a doddering shuffle that gives the impression of a retired sheepherder.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2022

The Marquess of Tilbury’s doddering hand rose to his pocket handkerchief.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck