doddering
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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
With characteristic savagery, Wolff portrayed Murdoch as a doddering nonagenarian unable to parse the changes in the cable business and unwilling to accept that American conservatism’s center of gravity had shifted away from him.
From Slate • May 15, 2024
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
Morton brings a refreshing comic spryness to Lear, playing him not as a doddering old man but as a vivacious, scampering jokester who expects to be treated as the life of the party.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2022
The Marquess of Tilbury’s doddering hand rose to his pocket handkerchief.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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